Lakeside Norway

04/22/2024

As spring is here, our on site outdoor garden center is taking orders for garden materials NOW!

We’re proud to offer for sale Maine-produced organic compost, super soil, garden soil and mulches! All our materials are PFAS-free!

Deliveries are made according to orders placed. Order now using the QR link below or go to:

https://www.pleasanthillpropertyservices.com/online-store

03/13/2024

An early spring has arrived to Western Maine, so we’re gearing up for the 2024 boating season! We still have a few slips available for rent at our family-oriented outdoor recreation facility!

Our high-end, low-impact floating boat dock from Great Northern Docks offers slips for fishing boats, bow riders and pontoon boats up to 24-feet long and 8-ft 3-inches wide. Our dock is extremely rigid and provides secure footing for folks of all ages and abilities when accessing boats.

Our amenities include:
- private on-site parking;
- family use of private swim platform;
-day-use of the Great Lawn, including family lawn games, picnic tables & fire pits;
-10% discount off tickets to 2024 Lakeside Norway shows and events;
-Toilet facilities;
-storage space for personal recreation equipment like bikes, kayaks, paddle boards and canoes;
-dock is a short walk to downtown restaurants, pubs, and boutique stores;
-free public Wi-Fi;

Text 207-739-0675 for more info!

12/05/2023

In the calmness which settled on the snow following the past storm, the crepuscular light of the low voltage LEDS accented the snowy softened landscape at the stone entrance leading to the Great Lawn—where we welcome all—to colorfully announce that winter has come to Lakeside Norway. Merry winter to you and yours! We hope to bring further color to your winter soon! Stay tuned!

11/08/2023

Promote what needs to be known!

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota.
It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation.

11/07/2023

Sometimes there are rainbows that appear over the work we are doing to make the vision of Lakeside Norway happen. What we’re doing will benefit our community, the lake and the local economy. Thank you Parent Lumber for your Maine-made wood products! Want to help make it happen! DM us!

10/17/2023

“Some nights, I stay up cashing in my bad luck/Some nights, I call it a draw…” but some days it’s a new lawn area for social gathering; other days it is a new garage door for the main warehouse’s brew haus, tap room and intimate events venue space. Some days it feels like progress!

10/15/2023

Please consider voicing your public support of the Lakeside Norway revitalization project; if you didn’t know about it, reach out and learn about it. We need your support if we are gonna keep going. If you understand what the project is trying to accomplish for the community, we really need you to promote Lakeside Norway.

As we transform our outdoor spaces and our historic buildings, the Lakeside Norway campus will provide additional opportunities for folks like the Maine Dragon Boat Club and the Cancer Resource Center of Western Maine to build coalitions that make the world a better place.

Our 6.6 acre campus with over 1/4 mile of shoreline is currently being revamped by Pleasant Hill Property Services, LLC to capture history, protect the lake, rebuild the ecology, help grow our local economy and give the community more inclusive access from downtown to Lake Pennesseewassee. However, it’s not been easy to get this point across. You can help: spread the word!

The event aims at raising awareness of breast cancer and highlights the therapeutic benefits of paddling.

10/14/2023

Jeff is, as usual, spot on!

1. Prioritize projects that are visible. Progress is way more fun when you can see the results. Give the streets something positive to talk about.

2. Celebrate your accomplishments. Stop being so damn serious all the time. Have some fun and be proud of the fact that you are making a difference. The community is ready for good news, even if they don't act like it.

3. Keep it social. Everything is more fun with a friend. Any project you decide to take on will be more fun with more people. Everyone is lonely and bored staring at their phones, they are desperate to create more connections.

One of my favorite events comes from Mayor Justin Hummel in Bloomsburg, PA. He started Libations and Litter (Clean Streets Bloomsburg) and gets people out on Saturday mornings to pick up trash and go drink beer. The fine folks in Growing Downtown Hopkinsville just adopted the idea as well.

Do you have a favorite project or initiative that another community could easily adopt? Something that has made a difference in your town and made things a little bit better? If so, share it in the comments so everyone can rip it off and look like a genius back at home.

10/11/2023

A beautiful morning for Pleasant Hill Property Services, LLC to infuse a nearby lakefront property’s ailing shoreline with 200-sq ft of native hay-scented fern. Propagated from Maine growers, the fern comes in sod form as well as container pots; it is available at The Cummings Landing Nursery for retail sale.

Not only does hay-scented fern bring instant gratification to clients—not to mention to the ecology of the lake😁), this resilient green rhizome can provide effective and much-needed shoreline stabilization to deteriorating banks suffering from our extreme weather events!

Bonuses: not deer food, spreads fast, competes effectively to limit other non-native invasive plants and requires little-to-no long-term maintenance!

10/11/2023

The chilly autumn evenings call to us to light the fire pits at Lakeside Norway!

10/06/2023

Check out the sunset view from one of our Alarm.com security cameras overlooking the Great Lawn! The Great Northern Docks stage gets setup next! We might make a push to have a fall concert or outdoor movie before the end of the month, so stay tuned!

The permeable custom stone flagging beer garden patio and granite retaining wall are on the docket for this winter once Stewards of Lakeside Norway are able to inspire sponsors to help purchase the materials!

10/04/2023

So proud of two of our biggest advocates for protecting the agriculture and horticulture industries in Maine. Jason Shiers of Pleasant Hill Property Services, LLC and Jake Pierson of Pierson Nurseries, both executive board members of the Maine Landscape & Nursery Association, were able to discuss with our congressional leaders the most critical issues affecting nursery and landscape companies across the state—especially the workforce shortage! Thank you AmericanHort for hosting this important summit in our nation’s capital and organizing these quintessential meetings with our government leaders!

If you are struggling as a home or business owner to connect with landscaping companies in your area, please be patient with them! The labor shortage is unprecedented and these businesses are feeling vulnerable! No one thought that “too much work” could put independent Maine landscape companies “out of business.” Unfortunately, the threat is real. 🥲

10/04/2023

We’re excited! We hope to see you there! An awesome, interactive lake-based and healthy activity! And a great way to learn about the vision for Lakeside Norway!

What are you doing next Saturday?

Join us as we recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month, try dragon boating and make new friends!

10/02/2023

We completed renovating and transforming the majority of the Great Lawn area, removing what was a compromised asphalt access way to the back loading dock. This social gathering green space can accommodate almost 2000 people for live concerts, outdoor movies and theatre.

With help from Redi-Rock of Central Maine and Pierson Nurseries, we also installed part of the retaining wall for our outdoor live entertainment stage, started establishing a green sound wall that utilizes large evergreens to mitigate sound and sequester carbon as well as the shoreline meandering pathway and new native perennial and shrub gardens to enhance the lake property’s biodiversity.

The expanded green space completes the environmental remediation from the time when previous commercial operations had contaminated the area, such as CMP’s use for creosoting utility poles and improperly storing transformers here in the 60s. The new green space thoughtfully reduces our impervious surfaces by over 6500 square feet and now effectively manages stormwater runoff coming off the warehouse roof, upper parking area and highway to stop the unchecked erosion damaging the shoreline of the lake, which had been the case for the last 30 years or more.

We wish to thank Maine Turf Company for supplying the Maine-grown sod that made this ~12k square foot area possible!

We can’t wait for you all to come and enjoy it and experience a concert or show at Lakeside Norway and learn from areas like the Great Lawn how you too can contribute inner positive ways to addressing the climate issues facing Western Maine!

09/19/2023

We’re very honored that our founder, Jason Shiers, as an executive board member of the Maine Landscape & Nursery Association, along with co-board member Jake Pierson—owner of Pierson Nurseries—are currently in Washington DC at the AmericanHort Washington Summit.

They have a busy couple of days ahead of them wherein they will be meeting with our congressional leaders to discuss the major issues facing the Green Industry in Maine! Wish them luck!!

09/19/2023

Each day we remain committed to bring our community-driven vision for this old commercial lakefront property to life. Rally behind us! Tell a friend about us! Share our posts! Reach out to our municipal leaders and tell them how you believe the vision will help improve the community they serve. Wear our hats and apparel! Come explore the property and learn more about what we are really trying to accomplish! Come help make the dream a reality! Come discover how wonderful this historic property really is!

09/18/2023

To create indoor and outdoor spaces that inclusively bring folks together to take pride in their local history and experience nature, build a more healthy and positive community that can better share in the access of their local outdoor resources and make an impact on our neighborhood downtown culture and economy.

This is what we are going to do; this is what we’re doing. We’re not “trying” to do it. We are doing it. Come get involved!