State Representative Deb Sanderson contemplating the Clary Lake dam during a site visit on August 10th. Photograph by George Fergusson
A story about tonight’s meeting at the Whitefield Fire & Rescue building on Townhouse Road has appeared in today’s Kennebec Journal. KJ staff writer Paul Koenig interviewed Representative Deb Sanderson and several other people for the article. Representative Sanderson conducted a site visit to Clary Lake several weeks ago to view the current low water conditions. I think it is safe to say that Representative Sanderson was appalled by what she saw that day, prompting her to call tonight’s meeting to solicit input from Clary Lake shore owners and town officials from Jefferson and Whitefield.
A number of Whitefield Select Board members have indicated that they plan to attend the meeting, but the article suggests that nobody from Jefferson plans to be there. I certainly hope that is not the case: I stopped by to talk with Select Board member Robert Clark yesterday morning and he told me that the Board had discussed the meeting at their regularly scheduled Board meeting the night before and said that he would be unable to attend the meeting but that Select Board member Gregory Johnston planned be there. We will see. It would be unfortunate if no one from the Jefferson Select Board cares enough about the Clary Lake situation to bother attending the meeting.
The meeting is to be held at 6:00 PM and the public is welcome. The meeting was scheduled on relatively short notice and we’re still trying to get the word out. If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me.
The picture at upper left shows Representative Sanderson viewing the Clary Lake dam during her August 10th site visit. I’ll be posting some additional pictures from that visit shortly.