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Berlin launches their Front Porch Forum
#VT – Know someone in Berlin, Vermont? Send them to FrontPorchForum.com to sign up for their brand spanking new Berlin FPF. Well done Martha, Andrea, Cathy, Michelle, Peg and Sarah!
Here’s the FPF coverage area map and town list.
Community development in Randolph
#VT – I’m invited to speak at the annual meeting of the Randolph Area Community Development Corporation. I’m looking forward to it! If you’re in central Vermont this evening, please consider joining the crowd.
Randolph Area Community Development Corporation (RACDC)
2012 Annual Membership Meeting
Thursday, September 20th at 6:00pm
At Chadwick’s Restaurant, Event Room
10 Prince Street, Randolph, VT
For the purpose of: Electing Board Members, Updating the Membership, Recognition and AwardsFeaturing Guest Speaker: Michael Wood-Lewis, Front Porch Forum
“Helping Vermont Neighbors Connect & Build Community”
Unitarian-Universalist church building community in Barre
#VT – From a Vermont church newsletter this month…
I think Front Porch Forum is a great resource for communities. We have it here in Bristol where I live, and it is a valuable asset for the area. My neighbor lost her dog and put a desperate plea on FPF. The dog was safely home by the end of the day thanks to neighbors who found her and logged onto FPF. I read reviews of don’t miss local theatre productions. Neighbors are able to pass off their slightly used moving boxes to someone in need and the boxes get a few more uses before they’re recycled. And sightings of bears, coyotes and other wild life are enthusiastically shared. I always look forward to reading it and staying connected with neighbors I might not get a chance to know otherwise. It’s a fine tool for building community. I’m very grateful to Michael and the whole FPF team that have made this excellent tool available to so many communities in Vermont, New York and beyond. I’ve signed up for the new Barre FPF and look forward to learning more about and connecting more with the Barre community. I encourage you to check it out.
Reverend M’ellen Kennedy
The First Church Of Barre ““ Universalist
Perfect addition to your vintage manure spreader collection
#VT – I decided to sell my old manure spreader. It is in solid condition and worked last time I used it. It has been stored in the barn. It is a New Idea Model #18. The bed is about 7’L X 3’W X 2’H. I am asking $550. You can email me for pics or stop on by to take a look at it. It is the perfect addition to your vintage manure spreader collection.
Never know what neighbors will post on Front Porch Forum. This is from Cindy in upstate New York. The kicker… she’ll likely get several responses… and meet some neighbors along the way.
Double whammy in Charlotte
#VT – Thanks to Front Porch Forum, our wooden shutters have been picked up… and we met a wonderful new Charlotte neighbor.
Posted by Christine on the Charlotte FPF today. That’s what FPF is all about… getting things done while connecting with neighbors.
Huge Inedible Zucchini?
#VT – If any of you have those ridiculously huge zucchini that you wouldn’t think of eating, I have an offer. Bring them to me, and I will return them to you transformed into a fun porch creature. One per family. Leave them on my front porch with your name and street address, and I will soon return them to your front porch. thanks!
Posted by Beth on Burlington’s Five Sisters Front Porch Forum today. That’s a first for FPF!
Black Lab Found!
#VT – Another successful Front Porch Forum story: via a Hinesburg FPF posting about a found dog, a Charlotte FPF reader noticed our missing dog posting. Then through various neighborly phone calls and emails, we picked up our little Jetta today, who ended up at the Hinesburg Police Dept. via the Shelburne animal dispatch. She had warmed up to the police and vice versa and even got a ride in the police car, sitting in the back seat with her head out the window. Don’t you just love small town stories like this?! A special thank you to Leigh, who initially gave Jetta a home for a few days. Thanks to everyone for their concern and help!
Posted by Pati to her Charlotte FPF neighbors today. Good news!
Trailer load of pallets… neighbors rock!
#VT – I was overwhelmed with all the responses I got following my posting seeking free wood pallets. I got a whole trailer load of them today and now know where to load up if I need more. Thanks everyone for giving me many options to seek out. Front Porch Forum rocks!!
Posted by Rob on the Huntington FPF today.
Tiger Rocco reunited in Old North End
#BTV #VT – My tiger cat, Rocco, was found last night and I have FPF to thank for the reunion! Thank you to everyone who kept an eye out for my sweet guy and also to the people who suggested that I sign up for this forum. After this experience, I will suggest this site to anyone searching for a lost pet. yayyayayayayayaaay!!!!
Posted by Paige on the ONE East Front Porch Forum today… good news.
“Trashaway, Trashaway, Trashaway All”
#VT – The truth is that I love all of the people in my world who help me keep this life humming, and yesterday was just another reminder of how very delightful it is to be living here in this brave little corner of the Universe.
In 2006, Michael and Valerie Wood-Lewis, newly relocated to Burlington, launched, out of necessity, a neat little on-line service called the Front Porch Forum, where Vermont neighbors can connect and share information. E-mail from the Forum arrives twice a day, and it’s there where you find out where the robberies are happening, who needs to borrow a canoe, who’s looking for a handyman. To date, I’ve used the Forum to find a mechanic for my dad’s vintage outboard motor, bales of straw, someone to do bodywork on my ’65 Ford pickup, a whole pig (butchered) and a web designer. Currently there’s a thread running on the Forum about trash removal services, and for days now my neighbors have been singing the praises of my garbageman, Gordy, who owns a business he calls Trashaway. Gordy is one of the nicest men I’ve ever met. He’ll take virtually anything and he doesn’t require that you haul your cans to the end of the driveway. He’s always in a good mood and never in a rush. I love “my” garbageman, and hold him in the very same esteem as “our” pediatrician. They are miracle workers to me–always there when I need them and very, very good at what they do.
That’s from a delightful blog posting by Melissa O’Brien published today. I recommend that you read the whole thing. She describes why many folks live in Vermont.
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Ghost of Midnight is an online journal about fostering community within neighborhoods, with a special focus on Front Porch Forum (FPF). My wife, Valerie, and I founded FPF in 2006... read more
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