A Series of Videos about Our Community vs. AT&T

Granite Lake resident John Cucchi has put together a series of videos that tell the story of our community's  history and beauty and why we feel AT&T needs to locate its cell tower somewhere else (we've found multiple other sites in the last six months):

1. In the first video we see Granite Lake as it was in the past along with pictures of one of its most famous residents, Dr. Charles Eastman, Native American physician and co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. It's titled "Twin Mountain History."

AT&T's Second Balloon Test: The Same as the First!

On March 4, between the hours of 8 a.m. and noon, AT&T conducted a second balloon test on Melville Hill that was, according to them, on a different, lower part of landowner Nicholas J.Healy's property and going to hide the proposed cell tower from being silhouetted against the sky high above Granite Lake.

This, however, did not happen. We were shocked to see that balloon test one (taken November 21, 2010) and balloon test two were almost identical. Here they are:

Mmmm...we're puzzled. How does this help anything?!

The next cell tower hearing is scheduled for April 19. This has been going on now for six months...

Minutes of the Stoddard Board of Adjustment 2/25/11 re AT&T Proposed Cell Tower

Members Attending: Beverly Power, Fred Ward, Ruth Ward and Richard Betz.  Excused was Maureen Meyer.

Correspondence:  Various and numerous emails concerning AT&T Cell Tower Application....

New Business: Beverly Power went over some of the legal advice that Sam Bradley emailed to her and the members.  The board had a lengthy discussion on the contents of that confidential letter. 

Fred Ward asked if the Balloon Test, scheduled for March 4 - 5 or 6, 2011, depending on weather conditions could be cancelled.  Beverly Power said the balloon test has been posted and published and will be held.  Fred Ward felt the balloon test was premature. 

AT&T Rejects Stoddard ZBA's Efforts to Find Alternate Cell Tower Sites

The Stoddard Zoning Board of  Adjustment (ZBA) hearings regarding AT&T's proposal to build a cell phone tower on top of Melville Hill, overlooking Granite Lake, NH, continued on Tuesday, February 15 at 7 p.m.

ZBA secretary Patricia Putnam's notes on the hearing can be found here.

Margaret Schillemat, a town of  Nelson Selectman, was present and her letter from the Nelson Board of Selectmen opposing the AT&T proposed cell tower site on Melville Hill, was noted. (See her letter in the last post.)

The Granite lake area is unique in that it includes both the towns of Stoddard and Nelson. Nelson residents on the south side of Granite Lake currently pay a considerable "view tax" for looking directly at the lake and the

AT&T's Balloon Test & Growing Cell Tower Protest

After the first hearing on November 10, 2010, my husband and I got together with a group of neighbors to discuss the proposed cell tower and what might happen at the next hearing. Since it was clear that health risks were off the table, we focused mostly on ecological and aesthetic concerns.

Not long afterwards, on November 21, 2010, AT&T did a balloon test on Melville Hill. What we saw shocked us. We drove around Granite Lake and took pictures from various angles, then sent them to neighbors. One of our neighbors