I grew up in one of those towns. They should continue to offer vouchers to surrounding PUBLIC schools. Same as they always have.

I don’t think it’ll instantly destroy education. In fact I think it’s worse because it’ll slowly drive rich high achieving kids out of public schools. Those schools will then stop offering higher lever curriculums which hurts average kids who aren’t rich.

Notice I said rich high achieving? A voucher only covers part of private tuition so parents still need to make up the rest. You have to be at least extremely comfortable to pony up the extra 10k per kid to send them to a private school.

Remote workers living in Vermont pay taxes. So I think they’ve earned the right to use resources.

Just don’t. Vermonters can’t even buy VT homes. Go to New Hampshire.

best back story, the dude who owns the store was like a veteran of some war. if i'm remembering correctly he developed a thing for neat flags and realized it was hard to find alot of them so he started selling them from his wood stove store

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but no they don't go together at all

“Real feel” will always sound wrong to my ears. It’s been windchill factor.

That said, it feels real fucking cold out.

My mistake, I misread the VT Digg article. The herb somehow circumvented testing.

"He said the cannabis was not registered with the Cannabis Control Board, and the board is trying to determine how it made its way onto store shelves. The board has contacted the five stores, Pepper said, and they have all stopped selling the cannabis."

Currently -16F

So far so good. Zero degrees in Dorset, and my three Haier units are keeping the house at 70 with no issue. Installed this past summer. I turned on the oil burner this morning and set its thermostat at 64 as a fallback, but the circulators have not needed to come on at all. House is about 2600sf, but about a third of that is a basement room which I'm not heating. It's dropped to 51 down there today. 3 sides of the basement are below grade, so it's fairly stable down there.

I tried flag and stove works but was like low key pissed to see that they're made in china.

I have a VT state flag that was made in the USA. I just searched 'flags made in the USA' and got one. It was kinda expensive but the whole point of getting the flag was to be patriotic and I didn't feel right buying one from Xi.

What are you looking for in a town? Just know that when someone asks this question on this sub the early onset grumpiness is activated for many. Don’t take it personally. And everyone is nice in real life.

Rent control dis incentivizes real estate development and leads to housing shortages. The focus should be on increasing taxes on second homes that are single family dwellings. This would help inventories for primary residents, but not disincentivizes investment in multifamily projects.

-12 up on my hill in Barre Town.

Was going to say this. Also, what is the deal with stove and flag as a concept for a store? I believe there is a stove and flag place in Williston or Essex as well. Do the two things really go together that well?

Meanwhile, another new AirBNB just popped up next door

Yes, agreed! Would like to make the switch too. I’ve got an 1840s house with baseboard heat and an oil-thirsty old boiler.

And in towns that don’t provide schools? What do you suggest those parents do?

Vouchers have been used in Vermont for decades with no damage to the public schools or the children who use them.

Stop believing the NEA hype that the voucher system is gonna suddenly destroy our public school system.

Flair checks out.

Nice! I'm in contact with the NLRB about Higher Ground Music and their punishing employees for engaging in legally protected acts. Love to see other Vermonters going after shitty employers

That's a Chinese weather balloon.

Happy to read this. We have a Daikin model good down to 5°f as well. Thought about going for the -15°f model but really couldn’t justify it. Run the wood stove almost around the clock late fall to early spring. Got it mostly for the shoulder season and the summers.

Spam filter ate it, it's been released.

They sell GMB flags at the State history museum.

I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. I was born in Springfield and it’s a terrible town to be from. I visit Vermont again yearly to see family and friends, but I stay well away from that town.

Stove and flag works in Montpelier

Fair enough