Good morning and Happy Spring, I hope you all had a good winter. The current air temperature on the pond is 31 degrees and it's spitting snow. The ice is still headed towards the dam but should be gone very soon. I have attached the agenda from last years meeting in case anyone didn't see it. I wanted to send out a quick note to catch everyone up on the activity down here since we all got together last August. We contracted with Mark Muzzy to bring his excavator down and pull some large rocks out of the middle of the road that had started to pop up. I had been notified by a member that they had scraped their oil-pan on their vehicle. Mark ended up being able to get 6 rocks up between Foley's and Joe Madden's and pushed off to the side. He dug on a few more that ended up being too big to pull up so he dug around them and tried to get them to settle lower than the top of the road. While Mark was here I also pre-purchased 3 culverts. That was a good decision as the price of culverts have gone up another 25% over the winter. In late fall Harold Blanchard volunteered to use his skidder and pushed over about 23 trees that were dead or dying and were threatening the power and fiber lines. As directed by the members we had our first season with Cole Aucoin plowing the road. It all seemed to go well. I did receive some feedback in February from one member who felt that the road was too narrow and the banks needed to be pushed back. I called Cole and asked him to do that and he responded within 24-hours and moved the banks back. The hill survived the winter pretty well. This last weekend Craig and John Watt used the grader and the rock rake on the road and hill. They were able to smooth out the potholes and deepen the ditches to try to promote water drainage. It's a challenge to manage the water on the roads as there just isn't much gravel anywhere. We are right on the base layer which is mostly clay so the water doesn't drain. The material on the road just absorbs the water. Also last year Phil McNamara worked with Max Hall, Joyce LuVisi and Ed Linz to get the basic website set up. This is an ongoing project and the web address is http://lwpwsa.org Looking ahead to this years initiatives...Mark Muzzy has agreed to come down this spring as soon as the road conditions allow and work for at least 3 days on road improvements. He will place the three culverts we purchased last year. Currently there is one needed in front of Lynne Mulholland's because the current culvert has a large rock speared through it, the culvert in from of Foley's on the corner will need to be replaced and repositioned because the old culvert is crushed and we will need to reset the culvert up higher on the hill above LuVisi's because it has popped out of the ground. If we have any money left we can ask Mark to add gravel to the softest parts of the road but I won't know if we can do that until we see what the bill is. This years annual meeting will be held at Joe and Joyce LuVisi's house at the bottom of Walden's Hill on Saturday August 6th at 10:30. Please bring a chair. The dues for this year are $500.00 and due by June 1st. Please send your checks to: LWPWSA C/O Doug Watt P.O. Box 1773 Greenville Maine 04441 If anyone has items they would like placed on the agenda before the meeting please send them over to me and I will make sure to address them on August 6th. If anyone speaks to a neighbor and they state that they didn't get this notice via email that means I don't have a good email for them. Please ask them to reach out to me. Thanks for your time and I hope to see you all soon. Have a good week, Doug 207-232-5391