Ghost of Midnight

People often ask… “what do the neighbors write about on Front Porch Forum?” Well, it’s challenging to boil it down to a simple list (although it would have to include missing cats and bikes). So here’s a batch of message headlines taken from the last week of postings on FPF’s 130 online neighborhood forums covering Chittenden County, VT…

• City Launches New Website!
• Another Neighbor Joins Forum
• Curious about Private Investigation?
• The Ramble July 26th!
• Old Windows
• Yard Sales June 21, Stolen Bikes
• Seeking update on 144 North Union
• Democrats Gathering June 21
• Police presence
• Please Return Plant
• garage sale June 21-22
• Abandoned Bike
• Books on Tape
• Traffic Concerns
• Jonas Brothers tix wanted
• Petra Cliffs day passes
• Dogs on Leash in Gilbrook
• Disturbing Incident Comment
• Day Care Suggestion
• Adaptive Sailing Open House June 22
• Fisher Cat Question
• Stolen Bike
• Fresh Air Fund
• NEW NORTH END YARD SALES JUNE 21
• Seeking Roofer Recommendations
• Cat Seeking Loving Home
• Cat Seeking Home
• Blow up balloons for July 4 parade and fireworks!
• South End Farmer’s Market
• landscaping/tree service recommended
• Forum Publication Timing
• SUMMER DAY CAMP
• Questions for Bear Experts…
• Sing Along June 30
• Police and recent vandalism
• Sing along
• Vinyl Siding
• looking for dog sitters
• Wildlife Teams Forming
• CARD GAMER SEEKING PLAYERS
• Pick-Up Frisbee
• Animal Shelter Fundraiser June 28
• summer tennis update
• reliable assistance available
• Hot Days, Cool Books
• Seeking Cat Sitter
• Disappearing Plants
• Regarding wreckless driving
• Hinesburg Vermont Yankee meeting June 25
• Nature Camp spaces available
• Black Bear Expert
• ride needed to Burlington
• seeking tag-along bike
• need a babysitter?
• missing bike
• ONE Farmers’ Market Opens June 24
• Drop-In Music
• Strange man
• House Siding
• Events at Your Library
• Extra Car seats?
• Treadmill for sale
• Apartment or house-sitting needed for July-August
• Seeking quilting lessons and doctor recommendation
• Park at night
• Traffic calming on town website
• traffic safety: an addition to Bretts smart words
• Entertainment Center for Sale
• Local Meat for Sale
• apartment needed
• Help Garden at Boys and Girls Club
• kids, police, eggs
• Timely Traffic Forum!
• Free couch near Young St
• Looking for Temp Living Space
• Seeking Lawn Mower Sharpening, Loaner
• computer desk for sale
• Australian Ballot
• Champlain College Block Party Invitation
• Real Estate Appraisal Questions
• Seeking bike loans
• Speed Enforcement and Traffic Calming Plan Update
• Looking for exercise/spin bike
• Burlington Permaculture Updates
• Misdelivered package
• Weekly Massage Special!
• Seeking Diamond from Wedding Ring
• Bike Rodeo and Round Up
• Seeking Bricks
• Race Data Collection Community Forum June 24
• Missing Chicken?
• Beach and fires
• More theft in the ONE
• free plants
• Seeking Moving company recommendations
• Looking for Swing set and Perennials
• Seen: Blue and White Parakeet
• Regarding Lawn Fertilization Concerns
• Urgent: Temporary Home Needed for Cat!
• City Website Feedback
• Petra cliffs passes gone
• Michael Franti/Spearhead ticket for sale
• Condo for Rent
• Valuable food information
• looking for sod recommendations
• local foods meeting - seeking farm land
• Seeking kittens
• Stray Cat - Yours?
• Discussion of Budgets
• Middle School Theatre Workshops July 21-25
• Summer Photography Classes
• Seeking Babysitter
• City Liability for Storm Damage
• Plant Thieves
• Children
• Seeking computer speakers
• Massage School Needs People to Massage!
• firewood for sale
• bike theft
• Free Storm Door
• Interior Painter Needed June 29 or 30
• moving company recommended
• Town Meeting
• Seeking tree service recommendations
• Volunteers Needed for Senior Games June 28
• Farm shares available
• Refugee Resettlement Benefit June 29
• 277 East Allen Project
• Traffic Calming Meeting TONIGHT
• house for rent
• Live Fire Training at UVM canceled
• Push Mower Sharpening
• Seeking Bike Loan
• more on Siding
• Summer Project Help Available
• Dining Room Set for Sale
• seeking Audiologist recommendations
• Drug Concerns on Murray St
• The Bagel is selling pizza
• Five Sisters Teen Filmmaker Wins Top Prize
• seeking Tree surgeon recommendation
• Seeking Part-Time Administrative Assistant
• Face Painter Wanted June 28
• Rhubarb for concord grapes
• Seeking to borrow water cooler June 28
• Local Arts Festival September 7
• Street Flooding Issue - Letter to Mayor
• Bunk Beds for Sale
• Need a house sitter?
• Seeking Hiking Area Map
• PC repair
• McQueen hearing: Cronin report
• Yard sale June 27-29
• reel mower sharpening
• Qigong
• SPEED ENFORCEMENT
• Two Dream horses for sale
• Seeking Painters, Flooring, Movers Recommendations
• Appraisal increase!
• Carpentry Needed?
• FPF History, success, and seeking furniture fix
• FUN WITH GOOGLE MAPS
• House for Rent in Hinesburg
• stray cat
• Farmer’s Market website
• home cooking delivered
• worms composting at South End Farmers Market
• Catamount Health Expansions
• Volunteers Needed for July 4 Run
• seeking dolly loan, dryer offered
• Yard Sale June 28-29
• Bike theft advice
• free dirt
• Police Chief Reinstatement
• Seeking House Cleaner, Mother’s helper recommendations
• Green Lawn Mowing Available
• seeking forwarding address…
• Linnie’s Event, Murray Street Concerns
• Tree Service Recommended
• Seeking Tent, Recommending Movie
• Seeking Raw Milk Source
• Let’s brag about a local adult this time!
• Childcare Opening
• Teen Police Academy July 7-11
• Nature Camps
• seeking roofer recommendations, painting and grounds help
• FARMERS MARKET WEDNESDAYS
• Yard Sales June 28
• Cancellation of fire training
• Teen Seeking Summer Work
• Ethan Allen Homestead offerings
• Comcast expansion into Westford
• volunteer opportunity June 28
• Lake Monsters at Library June 27
• July 4 celebration needs your help
• Music Nights June 26-28
• Library Programs
• Neighborhood Garage Sale June 28
• Australian Ballot and Town Meeting
• Book Sale at Town Hall July 4
• PLANT THIEVES
• Seeking Rental
• TV News Preference Survey
• Babysitter, Pet-Sitter Available
• New American Farmers Update
• Hinesburg House for Rent, Shelburne Qigong
• Tag Sale June 28
• runaway dog?
• Found Cat
• FPF History, Restaurant Recommended
• Exchange Students Seeking Housing
• Garage Sale June 27-29
• Found Trash barrel
• Free Music and Movies at UVM Saturdays in July
• Seeking Firewood Recommendations
• joggers thank safe drivers
• Melinda Moulton
• Soccer Game
• Speed Meetings
• lumber delivery June 25
• Restaurant Recommended More
• Soccer Anyone?
• North Ave. and 127 Slip Ramp Closure Meeting
• seeking summer housing
• red lily beetle
• 128/North Ave Ramp Mtg?
• Updates on Siding; Benefits of FPF and Good Neighbors
• volunteers needed june 30
• Energy message from BED
• Decriminalize Drugs
• trash burning illegal inside or outside
• seeking skin product
• Little League Schedule; Lake Monsters Night June 28
• Wedding Gown Available
• Edwina Gateley Event July 11-12
• House Sitter Available
• RiverWalk Celebration June 27
• tennis lessons
• Free Film and Music Series in July
• New Business: Big Help
• slate, china cabinet offered
• North St. 2 br. sublet
• Seeking dogs for calendar
• Seeking Lost Glasses
• Seeking vehicle to buy
• Seeking Stolen Bike
• Car for Sale
• 4th of July celebration
• Free Family Event on UVM campus
• Film and Music Starting July 12
• Seeking summer driving students
• Neighbor Appreciation
• Farmers’ Market list for June 27
• Free Kids Toys
• UVM grad getting acquainted
• Host Families Needed
• Half-off Tag Sale June 28
• RT 127/North Ave intersection meeting
• A Rave for Tommy’s Grill
• Bug Repellent
• Home Renovation - 47 Catherine
• UVM film-music and seeking host families
• UVM Summer Film and Music Series - FREE!
• Avon Source
• seeking host families
• 2nd Annual North Quarter 3rd of July Parade
• Eager to commute
• Cancellation of fire training comment
• Seeking third housemate
• New Farms for New Americans update
• Seeking car tires, bike seat, roof coating
• Seeking bathtub
• House for sale - Open house June 29
• Thai restaurant feedback
• Massage Barter for help with Move
• About Illegal Drugs
• best seat in town july 3 fireworks
• Obama Event
• Winooski Online Survey
• Robert and Gigi June 27
• Seeking Housing for visiting authors
• Communication Committee Meeting July 2
• New Aikido Introductory Series
• Looking for Apartment Cleaners
• Register to vote
• Free Film and Music Series
• small tricycle in our yard
• Documenting Ancient Roads in Milton July 2
• Free Computer Storage Media
• Thank You and Hunting for Accordion Players
• Neighborhood living
• Volunteer Needed for Huntington elder
• variety of gadgets left on our doorknob
• Seeking host families
• Police Chief Hearing
• Flynn Tour Opens South Burlington Gardens
• Homeowners’ Assn. Dues Past Due
• Seeking missing cat
• Myrtle Street Avant Garden Update
• Garage/Yard Sale June 28
• Garage Sale June 28
• AMBER ALERT - Please Help
• Richmond 4th of July Needs You!
• Neighbor Joins Forum
• Summer Camps at Shelburne Art Center
• Chief Back
• Sing-Along and Town Meeting
• Westford Recreation Summer Programs
• Fireworks Safety Tips
• PERSONAL ACTION AND GLOBAL CHANGE July 11-12
• FLYNN TOUR OPENS SOUTH BURLINGTON GARDENS
• Fourth of July Bike Parade
• SEEKING LOST CAT - Bright St
• Looking to get gravel hauled
• Gubernatorial Campaign seeking Volunteers
• Wanted: Woman who wanted Great Escape Ticket
• UVM Engineering Students Demonstrate Hybrid Car
• Gardener available
• Huntington’s Disease Walk June 28
• Garden Tour and Immigrant Farms
• Seeking 2-bedroom apartment
• Seeking feedback on possible Westford Park and Ride
• Seeking Car for June 28
• Apology - City Issues
• Traffic Concerns on Laurel Hill
• Ward One Commissioners Ask…
• Free pool table
• In response to drug dealers and courage
• Drug addict stereotypes
• Garden Tour
• Seeking Chairperson for Road Committee
• Bike the Lake for CF July 12-13
• Trash and Recycling Schedule
• CH17 PRODUCER TRAINING FREE
• Seeking Missing Calico Cat
• Drunken Noodle House
• circus tickets for sale
• camera for sale
• Open House June 29
• Neighborhood wildlife
• Porch Sale/Give-Away June 29
• Break-In on Pennington Dr
• Looking for Tennis Partner
• Avon Appreciation
• Obama T-shirts available
• FPF Tech Response
• Any babysitters needed?
• BIG HELP is HERE!
• Fireworks… register to Vote
• More Neighbors Join Forum
• looking for roofers!
• Another Neighbor/Babysitter Joins Forum
• Roofer experience
• seeking dog supplies
• Seeking small tent to borrow
• What happened to Huntington River last night?
• Free Ice Cream Maker
• Found Cat - Yours?
• Seeking caregiver
• BOOK SALE AT TOWN HALL JULY 4
• Winooski Festival Appreciation
• Flash Flood Follow Up
• big yard sale July 5
• looking to borrow a dolly
• Pet Sitter Needed
• Movies on the Green?
• Tech Difficulties and Seeking Pet Sitter
• Summer Host Families Needed!
• Braun Juicer for Sale
• Summer PRACTICAL HERBALISM class offering
• Looking for sailboat rental
• Need simple (?) chair repair - Help?