LAON is an all-volunteer group dedicated to preserving the health and beauty of Norway’s four lakes: Sand Pond, Hobbs Pond, North Pond and Lake Pennesseewassee. We protect the lakes from harmful invasive plants and pollutants, monitor and report on each lake’s condition, encourage responsible recreation, and conduct a broad based awareness campaign to reach our entire watershed community.
Of course, the key to our lakes health is the actions of all our members: Controlling erosion on their properties and roads. Removing all plants and debris from all boats and equipment. Limiting wake to protect other people, our shoreline, and property (state law requires minimum wake within 200′ of land).
Our members enjoy swimming, boating, fishing and other water sports during the summer and ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross country skiing and skating on the lakes all winter.
Events
Our Annual Meeting was held on Saturday July 15th at 9:30am. on Zoom. We will assume most of you will have read our newsletter, so we tried not to repeat too much of what is in it.We discussed our new “Watershed Protection Program” which will expand our watershed erosion control, and will include LAON funded incentives that can cover up to 50% of remediation costs.Click here to download the 2023 Annual Meeting Presentation.Click here to view the 2023 Annual Meeting Recording. YOU WILL NEED THIS PASSCODE: DG!CL4B* NOTE, you must type the * after the letter B. You can try copying and pasting the passcode, rather than typing it. The recording doesn’t begin until a couple of minutes after the meeting started.The 8th Annual Length of Lake Swim is Sunday, August 20. The annual fundraiser and celebration of the health of our lakes welcomes 2 and 3 person teams. If you want to swim or help with a party boat, contact Susan at skjacoby@comcast.net or 617/833-0646.
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Of Interest
Click here to download the 2023 Annual Meeting Presentation
Click here to view the 2023 Annual Meeting Recording. YOU WILL NEED THIS PASSCODE: DG!CL4B* NOTE, you must type the * after the letter B. You can try copying and pasting the passcode, rather than typing it. The recording doesn’t begin until a couple of minutes after the meeting started.
Our 2023 newsletter highlights the challenges confronting us and the responsive programs we’ve developed. Our strength is based on our multifaceted approach, our success is based on lakeshore property owner involvement.
See the updates on the Lake Pennesseewassee watershed protection program:
Also, please review the summary of the highly successful North Pond Watershed Protection project, which was conducted during the fall of 2017 through end of 2019.
Sponsorship
Our sponsors are caring local businesses which recognize the connection between the quality of our lakes and local economic vitality. The Town of Norway is our main partner; we are grateful for its ongoing support. Our business sponsors are listed on Thanks to Our Sponsors.
We need you to Invest in our future. We rely on annual membership dues and business sponsorship to support our work. (All donations are fully tax exempt)
- Learn how to be a Business Sponsor or a Member
Get LAON Shirts and Tote Bags
We have designed, and have available for sale, a variety of LAON shirts and Tote Bags! Please consider buying shirts or bags for yourself, your family members and maybe even your frequent guests. When we begin to wear these shirts and carry these bags around town, we will be sparking awareness of what LAON does for our entire community.
Would you like to be on our email list? (We only send a few messages each year and we won’t share our address list.) Just complete this form or Email: norwaylaon@gmail.com. Don’t forget to add us to your address book so that our messages reach you!
