Category: The News of the Day

  • Cleaning up Wires

    Cleaning up Wires

    The contractor hired to restore Scituate Light visited last Wednesday and that prompted me to get going pulling out wires for the different cameras that remained inside the Tower. The Seawall Camera and the Inside the Light camera were the two that remained in place and I was able to pull them down and back…

  • Press Coverage

    We got some ink today in the Boston Globe. This has been in the works for a couple of weeks as columnist Tom Farragher (living right up the street) and photographer Jonathan Wiggs, (also living right up the street) combined to write and photograph a story on the renovation of the Light and our time…

  • Inching Our Way There

    Inching Our Way There

    I have heard through the grapevine that the Selectmen may choose be voting to award a contract on Tuesday night. The bids needed to be submitted by February 23rd and I am told there were not many submitted. Should the Selectmen choose, they could go back out to the National Register and ask for new…

  • Four Down

    Four Down

    There are currently four cameras not working. The Seawall, Inside, Lantern Room, and Inner Harbor cameras are not available through the Stahr Family page links. I am working on fixing them. I have a ways to go. The others are all live and I hope you continue to enjoy them. Update: 2/10/2023 It seems like…

  • Brrrrrrrrrr

    Brrrrrrrrrr

    Got super cold yesterday and the old place held up just fine. Some of the summer work to tighten things up seemed to help the cause. The electric bill has gone through the sky (all the way to Mars) but the oil bill has been manageable. The quiet that comes with the cold is the…

  • Three Weeks In

    Three Weeks In

    The new year is off and more has gone right than has gone wrong. The old Lantern Room has not been pushed by a storm surge. I am told the bid package for the next one is near to being complete. The weather has been forgiving (meaning the oil bill has not been catastrophic) and…