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There are health concerns indeed.

Not to mention safety issues that would come from having vehicles and unauthorized workers going in and out of the school grounds unchecked, especially if that access road were to be located through the baseball field.

That baseball field, by the way, is used every single day of the week as -amazingly- a baseball field, where children from all over town practice and play. The idea of having it partially paved over or covered in gravel simply to please any private company is ridiculous.

Next, the height proposed for the tower is enormous. Almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty. That sounds like something no one would enjoy looking at from their window or back yard. And apparently the Town Council requested a 25 ft. Extension to that height in the future. Good thing we have forward thinkers looking out for our best interests.

Property values would surely go down in the vicinity of the tower, and if I heard this correctly and the information presented at the meeting is true, the radiation reaches as far as a 2 mile radius, which encompasses a great portion of the town. Whether anyone believes in health effects being linked to these emissions or not, these are certainly additional points about which every one of us should probably worry.

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