Glover grap­ples with dam is­sues

By Maria Amador  

GLOVER — At the se­lect board meet­ing here on Oc­to­ber 24, board mem­bers and town res­i­dents dis­cussed the con­di­tion of Shadow Lake and the road that winds around it, fol­low­ing writ­ten and spo­ken com­plaints.  Mon­day, two town of­fi­cials spoke with the Chron­i­cle about the state of the road and the town’s plans to ad­dress it.

Shadow Lake Road came up at the se­lect board meet­ing when Brad Geb­bie, who owns a house on the road, asked why it is not yet ready to be paved.  Ac­cord­ing to meet­ing min­utes, he asked why Class 3 and 4 roads were be­ing pri­or­i­tized over Class 2 roads.

Se­lect board mem­bers said the road re­pair sched­ule was dis­rupted by two con­sec­u­tive years of flood­ing.  They agreed to meet to dis­cuss the road main­te­nance sched­ule.

Mr. Geb­bie read a let­ter from Bob Fortin who is ill and was un­able to be pre­sent at the meet­ing.  Mr. Fortin ex­pressed great con­cern for the state of the road’s ditches, the lake’s level and us­abil­ity, and paving.

In the first sec­tion of the let­ter Mr. Fortin asked who in the town of Glover au­tho­rized the eight-foot-deep ditch near the fish­ing ac­cess area and a cul­vert he said is con­tin­u­ously plugged by dirt from the ditch.  Mr. Fortin said he thinks the ditch is so deep that it will be­come a haz­ard for cars in the win­ter due to the road’s soft edge.

He also said the ditch has be­come an eye-sore.

Mr. Fortin said he ..

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