Archives for October 2009
Where do you turn when your car is broken into? Or when you need to borrow a stroller, find a reliable mechanic, sell your couch, or track down your AWOL dog? Increasingly in Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties, people turn to their nearby neighbors through Front Porch Forum (FPF).
After just three years of FPF’s service, [...]
We get a version of this question again and again… “Is it allowed to post X on Front Porch Forum?” Well… for just about any “X” the answer is an emphatic and simple YES!
The whole idea behind Front Porch Forum is to give nearby neighbors an easy way to communicate… FPF doesn’t decide the topics, [...]
I’m looking forward to a new book by two long-time Harvard professors… The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century…
In today’s world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out [...]
How do you tell what kind of winter is coming to Vermont? Check your cat’s coat? Read the pattern of fall foliage? Me? I read Front Porch Forum. Postings like this one in Huntington today tell me we’re headed for a long, cold one…
A friend of mine, on Texas Hill Road, had his tank of [...]
Front Porch Forum is available to anyone who lives in one of these Vermont towns…
Alburgh
Bolton
Buells Gore
Burlington
Charlotte
Colchester
Essex Junction Village
Essex Town
Grand Isle
Hinesburg
Huntington
Isle La Motte
Jericho
Milton
North Hero
Richmond
Shelburne
South Burlington
South Hero
St. George
Starksboro
Underhill
Westford
Williston
Winooski
And we’re expanding to other areas in the coming months. Sign up or join our waitlist. FPF is free to local residents.
Thanks to our Grand Isle County sponsors, and to [...]
Andy Schroepfer at Rackspace wrote recently about the future of email vs. social media, texting, etc. Some, like today’s nutty Wall Street Journal article, declare the demise and coming death of email. Oh, puh-lease. And we all have paper-less offices, and radio disappeared the day after TV arrived, and the U.S. Postal Service is [...]