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Walking

I don’t live on Penn Lake, I live across Penn Avenue but I walk around it almost every single day. It’s a gift to have a little pocket of nature and beauty in my neighborhood and in my life.

What Makes Lower Penn Lake Special

This is not so much a particular story as it is an account of what makes Penn Lake (at least the lower and larger part) so special over the course of the years. My wife and I moved across the street from Lower Penn Lake in 1989, and raised our family in sight of it. We never tire of looking out our living room window at this defining natural feature of our neighborhood. Just this morning, we spotted two bald eagles out on the ice. Now, as the lake begins to ice out, we're scanning the surface for migrating birds…

Penn Lake Improvement

We have lived near Penn Lake for 26 years and we love to see so many walkers young and olderwalking down toward the lake. It is beautiful but what is missing? The freshness and better quality of the water as it was in past years. I believe the sunfish the kids used to catch no longer inhabit our lake.The jetty formerly well maintained now is surrounded by weeds and last year there were holes on its surface. The waterfowl is greatly reduced from when it was a healthy, cleaner water. I love the lake in spite of the neglect it…