Yikes, and here I thought a cellphone tower was going up on “the hill.” After reading the letter to the editor from Michael Everding (March 13) about “plummeting” property values, “devastating” impact on homeowners and “living under the shadow of such a monstrosity,” I must have misunderstood what was going up. Sounds like something on the order of a huge, high-tension electrical transmission tower festooned with satellite dishes and lighted with Hollywood-style searchlights.
Hello, it is only a cell tower. You know — tall, skinny, little tube thingies near the top. This is not going to devastate anyone’s view unless you choose to stare at it and only it.
As populations grow, needs and lifestyles change; the environment changes, also.
I am more saddened by seeing every hilltop covered by houses, but as I have one of them, I accept Pogo’s famous observation, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
So, in the long run, just relax. It is impossible for everyone to take on the “not in my back yard” attitude.
Michael Delehanty, Otisfield
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