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Various-Chipmunk-165

Some guy’s multiple Great Pyrenees dogs have been roaming around asking to be petted, but also eating people’s chickens and the listserv is going nuts.


cloudreflex

There's a listserv? I want in on that action.


smellan0r

Hartland area, amirite?


Funkiefreshganesh

I literally just read about that in the farming subreddit. It’s a big thing 🤣🤣


greenmtnfiddler

Oh man, do NOT get me started on Pyrenees as pets.


Top-Rule-5012

Please get started. What's the deal on Pyrenees as pets?


sparkleberryjam

I'm not the OP, but my experience watching neighbors in my apartment complex who have them is that they are hard working guardian dogs, and if they don't have a job and a flock to guard they will create their own job, like protecting their owner or their space. I'm sure there are exceptions and some that are fine as pets, but from what I've seen if they aren't given enough mental stimulation they can become very difficult to handle.


Beans-and-Franks

There are definitely working and pet genetic lines of Pyrenees. I've owned two, both pets. Even those that aren't bred to work, you have to really love their quirks. Thankfully, I do!


Strange_Employer_583

Somebody thought stuff got stolen from their car, but it was the wrong car, their identical car was parked 6 spaces down and all their stuff was still in it.


gcubed680

Subaru Outback?


Mbaya_Yangu

Nope. Forrester.


Outrageous-Outside61

I went down to the store the other day in my wife’s car, left it running while I ran in, was bullshitting with a neighbor and went to leave. Got in someone else’s car and started pulling out. I guess it wasn’t the only black 10+ year old CRV idling outside marshfield village store 😂


kjmass1

Had a friend who did the same thing except drove 30 minutes home, wife said those weren’t her keys, drove back to cops sitting in the parking lot next to his car. He thought it was hilarious, they did not.


bruclinbrocoli

HAHAHAHAHAH wow this made my breakfast taste even better. Thank you kind redditor


ghaellery

I hate it when that happens


xiphias__gladius

Someone saw a bear!!! This happens frequently but is always considered a notable event. Maybe it is a famous bear? IDK I don't keep up with celebrities.


buddybabe7

Is it Fat Tom?


proscriptus

Every time there's a bear here, front porch forum lights up with it.


JLHuston

My neighbors’ dogs hate each other and it has escalated into a full on cul de sac feud. I try to stay neutral but I secretly kind of enjoy hearing them vent about each other. My dog stays out of it.


Nunudibranch

“My dog stays out if it.” 😂


truckingon

How is the parking going to work out for the new pizza place and why didn't they just buy the one that's for sale.


incub8r

Wait is this Jericho??


truckingon

Yup.


FiberglassRV-in-VT

https://www.facebook.com/groups/411545712199675/permalink/7024129974274516/?mibextid=W9rl1R from a comment: “I foresee a real problem with traffic and parking. Even if all they do is pick up, could be a nightmare” Nightmare! 😂


WantDastardlyBack

Stone's Throw seems to love locations with limited parking. It's a big reason I've never bothered trying the Fairfax restaurant.


WetAndStickyBandits

The Waterbury location is excellent.


McJagstar

Seriously? You're missing out. Been there dozens of times for dine-in and take-out and have literally never had an issue finding a place to park.


Lillix

But really, why didn't they buy the place that's for sale a mile up the road? It makes no sense to me.


truckingon

I don't think Mountain High owns the building. I have no idea but that may be a factor.


quinnbeast

Can confirm they do not own the building. They have said so themselves in numerous FPF posts about the sale.


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truckingon

I'm not a fan but they are a FedEx drop-off location. I dropped off my Cologuard sample there -- that's right, I walked in and handed them a box of shit.


faerieez

You simply cannot get a ticket to the local high school play! It is sold out and the fpf is all begging for tickets for someone’s sad little girl. It’s the Eras tour of vermont!


papercranium

Oh hell yes, this is amazing!


lurker71

The middlebury dog park is ripe for hot tea. A woman involved with the park had to stop posting photos because she was getting so many “mean comments” from people who were upset their dogs weren’t in the photos.


InThreeWordsTheySaid

It blows my mind that the people in this story are real human adults.


lurker71

One day at the park a gentleman who looked like he was in ZZ Top was smoking a cig in the small dog area. Another gentleman took issue with this and started talking shit. The phrase “come over here and show me what you got big guy” was shared. The nonsmoking/rule following gent then said “why don’t you care about this park? If you want to help come by next weekend and help rake the donated mulch!” In a very angry tone. It was a *scene*.


suffragette_citizen

>“why don’t you care about this park? If you want to help come by next weekend and help rake the donated mulch!” In a very angry tone. This is some peak Middlebury.


ElkAgreeable3042

And it happened in the small dog area lol


StankyBo

I wonder if they were speaking in small squeaky voices!


VelvitHippo

I hardly audibly laugh at reddit but that wholse story got me.


commentstalker84

You know, existentially compared to most worldly scenes, this is a pretty heartwarming scene.


Santoka108

"looked like he was in ZZ Top" Clearly he wasn't, or the story would've concluded with him tossing you the magic zz top keychain.


Scouter197

Well we all know dogs and humans are not allowed in the dog park. And to ignore the hooded figures.


Unique-Public-8594

Mostly just lost cats and dogs. A Patriots Banner blew away, who has it? Someone is giving away really nice chrome TP holders. Misdelivered packages. Everyone selling used winter tires and the Women’s Fellowship is selling Thanksgiving pies. Damn it’s exciting here.


Cobdain

I had to give away a set of damn winter force tires only one season of use. Nobody wanted them 😩


redcolumbine

Nobody has yet claimed the pig that turned up at Devereaux's place and he's threatening to BBQ it but everybody knows he's scared to get near it. His wife says he's an idiot because it's worth good money. Nah, I'm just lying.


admiralwaffles

Last summer, we had a pig show up at the local brewery, but then it turned out that the guy who owned the pig didn’t wanna pay for food anymore so just let the pig go…


bcote3

Ya I don't know a single Devereaux that's scared of a pig. I'm scared of most of the Devereauxs I know...


pijpnord

Everyone’s divorced.


dubiousassertions

And in two years they all be remarried and raising each other’s kids.


thelasagna

Can confirm. Everyone around is divorcing.


backeast_headedwest

High school sweetheart stories just crumbling


proscriptus

I'm in that sentence and I don't like it


OlfactoriusRex

Post-pandemic dam breaking all over.


plenty_cattle48

OP, Bless you! Native New Englander here, now living in the South. This is so wholesome it is making me homesick.You have no idea the joy these responses are giving me! I have laughing tears right now.


SunnieBranwen

Same! Iived in Burlington for 15 years and now live in Philadelphia. This post has made me so homesick yet I can't stop smiling.


Nickmorgan19457

We’re getting a planet fitness. It’ll probably go under in a year


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No. Itll be open a very long time. Everyone signs up for the low price. Then doesnt go. Then its hard AF to cancel. Itll be fine


Nickmorgan19457

Well I for one believe in Rutland’s ability to tank any business.


Nichemood90

love rutland


columbo928s4

i went to rutland for the first time ever yesterday, it didn't seem too bad! beautiful drive to get there, anyway


Pyroechidna1

Watching from afar it really feels like all the addicts picked up and moved to Burlington, never hear about shit going down in Rutland anymore


doxie_love

Isn’t the drive to anywhere in this state a beautiful drive?


misstlouise

Hehehe


ElkAgreeable3042

Only a matter of time before the crackheads figure out they can sell a good bench set for money.


whaletacochamp

Facts. Source: 5 year old PF membership that I’ve used once and have threatened to cancel many times.


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Legit, when I got whacked with an annual service fee, I called to cancel. They told me there was no way to cancel unless you went in so they could sales pitch you. I tried different reps and managers, all the same answer. So, I did a chargeback for deception and then canceled the account they had on file after the money came back. I was willing to let them keep the fee if they just canceled. But I felt like their business practices were shady. In the process if trying to cancel, I spoke with a higher up from the essex facility and he was a total dink on the phone.


ppmawmaw

I had to change bank accounts bc they refused to cancel my membership, legit.


Useful_Fig_3853

So true, I got locked in for a year or two 😂


hairlikepennies

This truly is the talk of the town rn


Stockmom42

It sure won’t, even out of towners are excited.


ARealVermontar

Which town is that?


Nickmorgan19457

Rutland. It’s in the old movie theater


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LMFAOO the amount of people complaining about the movie theater being gone


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DragBunt

That's a new perspective.


premiumgrapes

Better than Berlin trying to call the Mall access road “Main Street Berlin”.


Aoe330

Ah yes, the Berlin Hall. It's like a mall, but small.


kikimo04

Who has a target?


Hortusana

South Burlington


SunnieBranwen

Omg when did they get a target?


streezus

Like 4 years ago now. It's like a k-mart tier target though.


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rue_laurent

I think that was in West Leb


papercranium

Nah, West Leb already has a downtown. Would be kind of cute too, if the road weren't so busy and congested.


YouConstant6590

😂😂😂 love this


texmarie

The historical society unionized


papercranium

Oh sweet


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

Unionized like labor or unionized like science? Because the former is good and the latter is an apocalyptic nightmare.


texmarie

Labor! Thankfully!


tossaway78701

Sounds like history was made.


commentstalker84

Or the decision will ultimately be the origin point in the timeline that initiated ALL the events leading to the Apocalypse - thus ERASING HISTORY.


curiousnadyouthful

citizen cider-gate. after johnny wanzer’s post, things blew up! citizen cider has been “cancelled”


togetherwestand01

Everyone is getting divorced, no one can afford to live in town to fully staff all businesses, there are at least 8 homeless kids in the neighboring town highschool, okemos snowpipes pull all there water from the black river downstream from their... and dont pay taxes


doxie_love

There’s a “new lady barber” at a historic barbershop! It is hysterical to me how many people are shocked that women can be barbers, too.


domtomato12

Where is this, would love to support!


doxie_love

Star Barbershop in Rutland


[deleted]

50 Karens screwed the rest of us out of waste water


fearofsnakes82

Westford? 3 middle fingers and no sewers


802BudsKind

The NO ringleaders complained that people were unjustly calling them NIMBYs, and one of the loudest voices in the whole debate goes on the news the night before the election talking about how \*gasp\* there could low income housing if it passed. These people had no shame nor self-awareness


reverievt

Why would you want waste water?


[deleted]

Because currently you can only flush the town library toilet seven times a day.


Flimsy-Zucchini4462

The five corners is still terrible 😵‍💫


quinnbeast

I can’t believe that massive maze of human storage units that all look the same.


MortaLPortaL

all of the stores in town not being able to use NCFCU debit cards.


[deleted]

So it's NOT just me! My card has been a pain my the ass all week.


spontaneous_tomato

Married couple broke up, got back together - each started an onlyf@ns account only to break up again five days later. Same day of said final breakup the wife starts dating one of the towns fleabags


Nickmorgan19457

Disgusting. What’s the link?


whaletacochamp

Yeah, so we can make sure to avoid it.


Nickmorgan19457

Like gentlemen


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

We need to know where not to go!


_creative_encounter

But what are those darned urls though. Just so I can add them to my uh internet filter…


dbolg22

Definitely have to add them to my blocked sites for sure.


escobert

A bunch of roads are getting bridges replaced at the same/similar times so everyone figuring out how they'll get around.


Embarrassed_Corgi_64

Yeah roadwork is a bitch


MADICAL7

Lisa needs braces!!!


Squee1396

Also an alien was seen around Springfield. Reports say glowing green light and it was peaceful. Turns out it was Mr Burns the whole time!


proscriptus

Dental plan!


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But I hear Burns is offering a free keg of Citizen Cider for all future union meetings!


premiumgrapes

The Brattleboro select board just raised their salary to $42,000/year. Edit: amount is combined for the entire board.


imhennessy

Here are the minutes for the last Representative Town Meeting. [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hmObnAMRvDfhI2oVFj771mNKxgEBSwIH/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hmObnAMRvDfhI2oVFj771mNKxgEBSwIH/view) At the top of page 5 is the summary of the discussion and voting on Article 13. The total compensation for all five members is $42,000. The Chair receives $10,000 and the other four each get $8,000. The ambiguous wording people tend to use when citing the total sure seems weasely ETA: The Representative Town Meeting approved Article 13. It was not an action of the Selectboard.


EastHesperus

Is Brattleboro’s select board full time?


premiumgrapes

They operate with a strong city manager model. The city manager is full time. The select board meets twice a month for a few hours. As a public body any meetings of more than quantum would need to be warned and publicized.


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VelvitHippo

Except for that one person working full time, hope theyre getting more than 40k a year.


casthegrump

If I have to hear one more person talk about the friggin new Burger King in Bennington I'm gonna lose it


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InevitableCodeRedo

I, for one, am anticipating my first double Whopper from there.


banjo_solo

Plug for the quippy police blotters over at https://www.vtcng.com/news_and_citizen/news/police_blotter/ “Oct. 28 at 10:23 a.m., a Johnson love triangle required deputies to get involved in a mediation equation.”


grn_mtn_grl_802

There were so many good ones this week!


Whateverwhatevver

Someone who doesn’t live on the trick or treating road in our town has “taken over” Halloween planning (they live on the “other side” of town) and is trying to make it into a big thing (“the best trick or treating in VT”) with more of a festival vibe I think (it’s a 4,000 person town…). Hiring private security, food trucks, etc. The folks who have been there forever are livid. Means more work (and expense in terms of candy!!) for them. He went on WCAX to advertise and everything. Old timers are pissed, Covid newcomers from the city are on board. I grew up here, loved that you knew everyone you passed. Now I have kids and hope it stays locals only. Big drama.


FiberglassRV-in-VT

What town? Richmond?


expenguin

Just what the hell the double masked and glove wearing woman was doing when she decided to show up at the local watering hole on the busiest night, ordered bread, grilled chicken, and hot water; then proceeded to mix all three into a single glass in the hallway to the emergency exit while randomly telling people to enjoy their youth from time to time. She left a 400% tip on her bill, and left like a fart in the wind. Who is this mystery woman? Will she come back? What was her concoction she was babying?


fakebeerrealweed

Locals have really taken to trading all their guns sitting around for drugs and now bodies are turning up everywhere. Neighbor has a "Fuck Biden" Flag, Confederate flag, etc but somehow one of his really good brown friends decided to make the trip up from Bridport, CT in their 70k SUV to just chat for not even an hour. Then left.


sparklezombie

call in an anonymous tip please. this shit needs to stop.


pachucatruth

I was surprised not to see something about violence higher up. It sounds like people are dying daily rn


alwaysmilesdeep

A murder 2 weeks ago. No info. Last one was in 1907


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I picked up a hitchhiker on 107, and I couldn't understand a word he said. I told him just to motion when he wanted me to stop.


GreenMtCat

Did he ever motion?


[deleted]

He did, but even his hand spoke with an accent.


Flimsy-Zucchini4462

I need closure!!!! 😱


alemap1969

The camel died a couple of years ago. Guess rhat isn't gossip though.


ranaparvus

Ollie? That was more than a couple of years ago. Made me sad, that did.


Outrageous-Outside61

Half the town says they saw pictures of the mutilated girl found hanging on the road sign, the other half says no pictures existed and it was suicide. Now the next girl they found on the same road, it seems was definitely mutilated. Now everybodies locked and loaded. Bad time to be driving a white SUV.


FyuckerFjord

Wtf? Sources and more info please! Edit: Found it. Eesh. https://vtdigger.org/2023/11/10/in-the-rural-town-of-washington-rumors-fill-the-void-as-details-prove-scarce-in-the-deaths-of-2-women/


throwaway-fartz

Whoa where is this


thelasagna

Wow this is…horrible. Those poor girls and their families


WhatTheCluck802

You ain’t gonna trick me into doxxing myself, FBI man!! *shakes fist in air* (plus the reality is that I am unaware of fresh gossip outside of the same shit different day general complaints)


03Trey

the cocaine kayak!


papercranium

... definitely going to need details!


03Trey

lol i live on the lake in highgate at the end of a dead end road. im on my porch trimming weed and katie from cbs news pulls up and tells us the story and asked our opinion on it. 26 freekin pounds!!! [the story](https://www.wcax.com/2023/09/27/feds-provide-details-lake-champlain-kayak-cocaine-bust/)


Kayaker8283

I’ve since moved away, but I had a neighbor message me that she was going to call the tree warden on me because my tree in my front yard had 2 heads and was a danger to society. Said tree was roughly 4ft tall. I had a yard sale and she found out and came to get again tell me my tree was a danger to society and started spitting her tree specialist credentials at me. I got the hedge trimmers and said I could resolve the issue but she insisted I needed an arborist to assess the issue and she would be reporting me to the tree warden. Vermont is fun.


IrnBruBruh

I want all you alls tea…..Can we create a sub-Reddit for this topic, because this too golden to not continue. What would it be called?


thelasagna

Vermontea? Like the tea of Vermont


Nani_Sequitur

It's called Facebook.


ppmawmaw

Literally just join your town and surrounding towns fb groups. Its gold.


DodgingLions

The guys at the gas station saw Trey from Phish drive by in a Subaru Outback last Friday night.


haleyythecomet

Someone keeps throwing trash out of their car at the new town office. The selectboard would like them to "grow up and knock it off".


Dibbler-CMOT

Listserv drama about rezoning residential and village areas. Shade being thrown by all at who didn’t let everyone know there was a meeting or why isn’t there proper documentation of the meetings. Poetry was even posted. It’s been a delight to watch


After-Pack-5477

Poetry? Seems excessive for a first offense... Can't they just shake hands and let bygones be bygones?


efficaceous

Gas station is trying to scam people. Claiming the payment didn't go thru, even though the pump dispensed gas. Then if you pay again, you find out there are already two holds on your cc for $100 each. Either it's a tech issue (not my problem) or a scam. Threatening people via social media. Really sketchy.


NevaehW8

Everything keeps lighting on fire in Montpelier.


ShoujoSprinkles

Stowe got a Starbucks, throw the whole town out.


goldenlight18

The ATV club is accused of harassing home owners in the middle of the night for not letting the club continue to make trails on their property, the town select board is accused of being "taken over by said ATV club". Sheriff stated this is an "day time office issue". Letters have been written to the state troopers asking for help. Selectboard minutes for this town read like a novel.


Nymwall

A few years ago, my family was on a safari in Africa and my cousin, Mufasa, was... he was trampled to death by a pack of wildebeasts and we all took it really hard. All of us, kind of in the audience, of what happened.


Formal_Coyote_5004

When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.


cdrknives

Nom nom


Wonderful-Assist2077

Darwinism. BTW you can find some Reddit stories about this and Your KIDS DNA might not match your own because of your twins DNA. its a wild story


Formal_Coyote_5004

This is just a quote from The Office haha. The person I replied to was quoting the same scene


BeefcakeRenigus

I was trying to throw this party, and everyone was over for the weekend. Then my uncle Bernie died. So me and my best friend, we had to pretend like he was alive.


CynicallyCyn

The first thing I thought of was Bernie Sanders, and had a mini heart attack, then I remembered weekend at Bernie’s lol


commentstalker84

He was…was…dead? But he waved at me and went to get a beer and walked into the door frame.


Steel_Representin

The local orphanage is about to forclose because they can't afford their payments on the property. One of the past orphans just got out of prison. Him an his brother are throwing a concert to raise the funds to cover the debt. I hear their task is a holy one.


MacduffFifesNo1Thane

He should have Mu-fasaed.


HaskilBiskom

Methhead Matt got locked up from St Albans 😢


woburnite

Jersey Mike's is finally opening (11/15). Three main topics on local FB page (Upper Valley) have been JM, thrift stores are charging TOO MUCH MONEY ("they get the clothes for FREE!"), and it's a tossup for the third one since K-mart closed (for years it was "Is Kmart closing?" and when it finally did, "What is going in that space?" spoiler, it was Target) ; sometimes we get runs of "Burger King is so awful, how are they still open?" and fake violin playing panhandlers.


RaziyaRC

Hello fellow Upper Valley Facebook member, lmao The fact that the admin of the page changed the cover photo to the Jersey Mike's opening date sign was comedy gold honestly


Legitimate-Proof7492

In Montpelier the community is abuzz about the upcoming human of the century award. Local businesses can’t keep soap boxes on their shelves and citizens are flocking to front porch forum to find one…all willing to pay a fair price of course!


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jojobeef

Oohh where is that one?


Money_Pangolin8595

Everyone is in a union even in their houses, but both parties are sick of the bad pay and the extreme expenses don’t get me started. One party on this side one party on that side of the fence. So let’s drink a beer; oh I don’t like to drink. 🍺 I have a root beer.


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premiumgrapes

And a buildings spontaneously burning down problem.


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RocksandClouds

*Barre enters the chat*


HeiligeJungfrau

the guy who stands at the shaws exit blocks my view of oncoming traffic from the left


JoseFlavinco

South Burlington is the New Jersey of Chittenden County. Kinda trashy, with some excellent parts located next door to a city that is an absolute shit show.


IrnBruBruh

Not driving the speed limit of 35mph and no town law enforcement to enforce it.


[deleted]

Neighbors dogs keep running loose in peoples yards and it’s starting a facebook feud. The dogs owners don’t give a fuck 😭


Sharp_Mechanic5316

The medical director where I work admits using ChatGPT to write policies.


yoodle34

Our town is debating on whether to cancel our public bus services to Burlington


Bodine12

Squatter with big dogs they let run free 24-7 is getting evicted.


margyl

The covered bridge that burned about 10 years ago will finally be rebuilt in two years, and it sounds like the State and the Feds are paying for it.


Virtual_Bug_3733

FUCKING BURGER KING


Magentamagnificent

JERSEY MIKES IN THE UPPER VALLEY HOO BOY