Neighborhood Watch —
Residents of Burlington’s New North End have been reporting on Front Porch Forum break-ins and scams targeting the elderly this past week. Looks like one FPF member has found a solution…
Just another voice to add to the neighborhoods re. the shoveling robber. On Monday, the 28th, a man approached our home on Grey Meadow Drive. [...]
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 [...]
State Rep. Suzi Wizowaty pointed out a great program today via Front Porch Forum…
A recent car break-in reminded me that many of you might not know of the city’s Parallel Justice Program. (I didn’t till this spring.) It’s run out of the Community Justice Center which in turn is a program of CEDO, the city’s [...]
I just came across this great quote from former Oregon Governor Tom McCall…
Heroes are not statues framed against a red sky; they are people who say: “this is my community and it’s my responsibility to make it better.”
Amen. And that’s why I love my job running Front Porch Forum… I get to witness dozens of [...]
Bill’s not letting the economy — or a bear attack — get him down (as posted to his Hinesburg neighbors on Front Porch Forum today)…
Bear Market finally hits Baldwin Rd
Delighted with the Budd and Schubart bird delis and their cornucopia of curious feeding devices, a hungry black bear, out for a Saturday evening ramble on [...]
I had to share a posting from Sarah Judd tonight on her FPF neighborhood forum in Burlington’s Old North End…
Please join us for the opening of the ONE Woman photography show this Friday, January 30th, at the Burlington College Community Gallery, 95 North Ave. in Burlington. The Gallery will be open from 3-9 p.m., with [...]
Here’s Front Porch Forum boiled down to two slides…
On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, Hilary just posted the following to Front Porch Forum in Burlington’s Old North End…
Community More Powerful Than Locks!
Hi folks – With all this talk about bike theft, thought it would be a good time to share with you that my bike, which I reported stolen about a month [...]
Burlington Police Officer Mike Hemond posted an update on Front Porch Forum today about a well-publicized vandalism case (this blog, Seven Days and Burlington Free Press).
Hello everyone, it’s been a pretty steady late summer / fall for me, so I’ve not been able to post on the Forum for a bit. I’d just like to [...]
Front Porch Forum is two years old! Thanks to everyone helping this local invention grow… 11,000 local household subscribing and counting. Recognition continues to roll in… PBS just included Front Porch Forum on its short-list of great examples of local community building online, and we’re a finalist for a national award from the Rural Telecom [...]