Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 by
Michael •
Local traditional media makes extensive use of Front Porch Forum. In the past 24 hours the following three stories appeared, each based in-part on an FPF posting.
First, from Bianca Slota, WCAX (video clip)…
Residents in a north Colchester neighborhood are fed up with a recent rise in home burglaries and they are banding together to keep each other safe.
Organizers thought maybe a dozen people would show up for their neighborhood watch meeting Thursday night. Instead dozens came to find out how they can help keep their community safe.
The meeting started as a discussion on Front Porch Forum. Neighbors were concerned about a string of 7 recent burglaries in the Clay Point area.
“We didn’t feel like there was a lot of communication going, or a network for communication,” said Helen Bishop, one of the meeting organizers…
“I think when you have a face to put with a name you might take better care of your neighbor,” she said… (click here for full text).
More than two dozens households have signed up with FPF’s Clay Point Neighborhood Forum in the past couple days. FPF is a great way to enhance the goals of a neighborhood watch.
And from John Briggs, Burlington Free Press…
Burlington City Council President Bill Keogh, D-Ward 5, who is old enough to remember roadsters in their heyday, suggested this week that it might be nice to re-create the drive-in overlook at Battery Park.
The park, which dates to 1815, had a road added in 1936. Until 1979, drivers could park there and look at the lake…
“What a view,” he wrote when he presented the idea on the Front Porch Forum. “Sunsets at their finest.”…
FPF is popping with feedback and debate about Council President Keogh’s suggestion.
And finally, from Lauren Ober on the Seven Days staff blog, Blurt…
Dawn O’Connell’s homemade flyer, which ended up on my porch last night, is really making me bummed. The notice is simple — the word “MISSING” is printed in handwritten capital letters over the photo of her cat, Cody…
I knew Cody was missing earlier in the day. Dawn noted her feline’s disappearance on Front Porch Forum and entreated her neighbors to let her know if they’d seen him…
If we only had a dime for every lost cat found through FPF…
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