Archives for January 2010
I’m looking forward to participating in a local media conversation in Bennington this week…
Shires Media Partnership Inc., the non-profit owner of radio station WBTN is convening a regional meeting at the Bennington (Vt.) Free Library on Thurs. Jan. 28 to gather public comment and advice on how it can meet the information [...]
A lengthy post has been growing in my mind about the recently release Kaiser study that shows just how awful U.S. teen media/electronics consumption has become. And by “consumption,” I mean how many hours a day media/electronics are consuming our kids, not vice versa.
Well, Mike Lanza over at Playborhood just saved me the trouble of [...]
What’s your favorite book or song or other creation that celebrates neighborhood life? Hard to beat Sesame Street of yore.
Burlington’s Fletcher Free Library just got The Big Orange Splot, a children’s book by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (1977, Scholastic Inc.). Gotta love a good kid book about neighbors, difference, and taking initiative. Groovy illustrations too. My [...]
Front Porch Forum is glad to be co-sponsoring this upcoming Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility event. Looking forward to seeing lots of folks there.
VBSR Networking Get-Together
Date: Wednesday Jan 27th, 2010
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Magnolia Bistro
Address: One Lawson Lane, Burlington, VT 05401
Cost: FREE and open to the public
To Register: Please RSVP to info@vbsr.org or [...]
We’ve got raffle winners! Nearly 1,000 Front Porch Forum members posted entries to their neighborhood forums for the Ten Words for 2010 Raffle. Thanks to our sponsors and to all who entered. Congratulations to our lucky drawing winners…
Tamra & Tony Augostino, Milton: One-night stay at The Essex Resort and Spa ($269 value)
Steffen & Kathryn Parker, [...]
I love this contest! Last year’s Nine Words for 2009 was such fun, and now the entries are pouring in for Ten Words for 2010. Enter by posting a ten-word item to your FPF neighborhood forum between Jan. 10 and 12, 2010. Ten great prizes worth $1,000 to be raffled off. Here are some samples [...]
To celebrate 2010 and have a little fun, we invite Front Porch Forum members (this means you!) to submit postings to their neighborhood forum between January 10 and 12, 2010. Any message that has EXACTLY ten words will be entered into a raffle for the following ten prizes…
One-night stay at The Essex Resort and Spa [...]
Thanks to the Burlington Free Press for including a Front Porch Forum co-founder in its list of the decade’s Vermonters “who know how to get things done!”
UPDATE: Now the Freeps has the story online too.