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KEOKA LAKE ASSOCIATION

Priscilla Treadwell
Jun 21, 20231 min read
Paddlers, label your canoes and kayaks!
From the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Each year the Maine Warden Service and Maine Marine Patrol respond to many...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Jun 21, 20231 min read
10 Ways to Protect Keoka: Tip 4
Source: Maine Lakes and LEA Tip 4 of 10: Fix your driveway Lakefront driveways are one of the biggest culprits of erosion on residential...
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Priscilla Treadwell
May 18, 20232 min read
Interview with an Artist: Shauna Sprunger
KLA has been that Shauna Sprunger has allowed us to display her beautiful photography of Keoka on our website. Brenda Hambleton sat down...
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Priscilla Treadwell
May 18, 20231 min read
10 Ways to Protect Keoka: Tip 3
LEA & Maine Lakes Tip 3 of 10: Stop Over-Fertilizing Your Lawn Eighty percent of all soils tested by the University of Maine Cooperative...
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Priscilla Treadwell
May 18, 20231 min read
Maine Boating Impacts Coalition: Wakes and Lake Health
by Charlie Tarbell With their unique ballast tanks, designed to produce maximum wakes, these boats direct their prop wash down toward the...
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Priscilla Treadwell
May 18, 20235 min read
Observations of Keoka Lake by a Summer Resident
I love returning to Keoka Lake each spring. If the ice is out, or nearly so, I immediately jump on my paddleboard. The earliest I have...
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Brenda Hambleton
May 7, 20231 min read
Rain, Rain, Go Away!
Rain, rain, go away! So far May has delivered more than 4 inches of rain and some strong winds. The north shore of the lake got pounded....
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Priscilla Treadwell
Apr 4, 20231 min read
Photos by Diane Rung
Don and I are originally from Cleveland, Ohio. We moved to Naples, Florida in 1973. I bought Charlie and Mary Fillebrown's camp in 1989...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Mar 13, 20233 min read
LEA Survey Team Finds NO MILFOIL!
by Charlie Tarbell I confess that I deeply love this lake Keoka and that I am also deeply troubled by the prospect of the lake becoming...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Update on LD 92: An Act to Minimize the Propagation of Invasive Aquatic Plants
The “milfoil bill” is still in committee. In January 2023, it was referred to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. This group...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Mar 13, 20231 min read
10 WAYS TO PROTECT KEOKA – A series
Source: Lakes Environmental Association (LEA) Protecting the lake literally begins at home. Every month we’ll offer property owners one...
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Brenda Hambleton
Mar 13, 20231 min read
Creepy Spring
by Charlie Tarbell First you notice the warmth Caressing your neck and back While you walk On the snow-packed surface Then there is that...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Feb 11, 20231 min read
Mid-Winter Morning
By Charlie Tarbell Five-oh-five AM; fifteen degrees; darkness prevails We pour our first cup of coffee, cherishing the bite of the bitter...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Feb 11, 20234 min read
Camp Road Winter
by Chris Brennan This is our seventh winter living on a camp road year-round on Keoka Lake. The road has sixteen houses on it and is...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Feb 11, 20231 min read
Trees, Storms, and CMP Policies
In light of the severe storm that wreaked a fair amount of havoc around the lake in late December, and the ever-increasing frequency of...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Feb 11, 20233 min read
Nature is Red in Tooth and Claw
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam A. H. H., 1850) by Charlie Tarbell At Keoka, we live in nature, surrounded by nature. This fact is...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Fall Photos: Keoka in Beautiful Color
Keoka Lake is shimmering with gorgeous color in the fall. We asked for your best shots from around the lake and throughout the village. ...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Dec 10, 20222 min read
Waterford Ghosts: Bell House – The Ghosts That Wouldn’t Leave
by Brenda Hambleton In 1968 Hans Holzer, author of more than 140 books on ghosts and other inhabitants of the “other side,” fled the...
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Priscilla Treadwell
Dec 10, 20221 min read
Mid-Winter Morning
by Charlie Tarbell Five-oh-five AM; fifteen degrees; darkness prevails We pour our first cup of coffee, cherishing the bite of the bitter...
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Brenda Hambleton
Dec 10, 20227 min read
Snowbirding: Following our Winged Friends in Winter
by Sally Stockwell Just like human snowbirds, many of “our” birds head south for the winter. They breed here in Maine or pass through...
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KLA Loon Nest Refurbishment
By Andy Tabor Photo 1. Towed the loon nest platform over to Stone’s Cove Beach. Removed all the old tie down cords that hold the nest...


Belt & Suspenders
by Charles Tarbell Keoka Lake Association (KLA) has deep experience in conducting its own Plant Patrol during each open water season....


Waterford 25th Anniversary Fall Foliage Race
By Paula Easton The weather was on our side on an amazing day for the 25th anniversary of the Waterford Fall Foliage Road Race. It was...
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