Cardigan State Forest Gets an Addition

Sandi Pierson, secretary to the Board of Selectmen, sent us this from the minutes of a recent meeting:

Mount Cardigan State Forest:  Dorothy stated that Norco has conveyed 257 acres (Map 4, Lot 15) to the State of New Hampshire and this land is now part of Mount Cardigan State Forest. This acreage is on the
summit and eastern slope of Hoyt Mountain and includes the Hoyt mine. It is contiguous with state forest land having frontage on Burnt Hill Road.

School Board Meeting

Don't forget the Mascoma Board meeting this Thursday, October 27. Sandi Pierson tells us that the meeting starts at 6 at the Orange Town House.  The non-public session is ninth on the agenda--not 5:30 as we previously reported.  (The agenda is posted on the bulletin board outside the Town House.)

Sorry About the Trash

We screwed up. Our apologies to those who saw there was no trash pickup on the calendar. Turns out there was. We'll try to communicate better with the Town on pickups in the future.

Recycling Report

According to the latest figures, Orange residents recycled 11.84 tons of trash between May 6--when Zero Sort recycling began--through September 23.  That's a huge savings in landfill space, and a sigificant savings to us taxpayers.

WaveComm on Cardigan

People have been asking what the equipment installed recently on the Cardigan summit by broadband provider WaveComm looks like.  We popped up and took this picture.  (The Wavecomm equipment is the white stuff on the upper left of the tower.) Not very awesome--which is a good thing in our book. 

Recently, we (Dorothy and Jay Heinrichs) have installed Fairpoint DSL in the house, and pointed a new antenna to WaveComm's Cardigan dish.  By paying a larger fee, we were able to get Wavecomm speeds up to double the DSL speeds--which themselves are pretty good.

Not sure how the equipment will hold up in the winter, but WaveComm did OK with its Ascutney summit equipment last year.  Jay has offered to hike up and fix anything that a moron could fix.

With Fairpoint, WaveComm, and Wildblue on the scene, Orange is starting to look connected.  Right now, you need to be able to see the summit from your place to access the new WaveComm installation.  But the company says it plans to install repeaters in the future to serve people who can't see the summit.  Call (603) 298-9000 and ask.

(We don't have any relationship with WaveComm or the other providers except as customers.)