Green Mountain Meandering Missives

  Democracy Matters A virtual snapshot from behind the scenes at the election polls on City Meeting Day in Montpelier last year (2023) (Selfie: Former Justice of the Peace, Morgan W. Brown, after arriving early in the morning at City Hall on City Meeting Day, 2023) As a newly elected Justice of the Peace (JP; since resigned, in September 2023) as well as a (now former) member of the local Board of Civil Authority (BCA), having officially taken office along with other new and incumbent JP's on February 1st (2023), I had an opportunity to volunteer as a poll worker for several hours during the City Meeting held in Montpelier last year (Tuesday, March 7, 2023).  Although I have previously intended to do so from time to time in years past, this was my very first time volunteering at the polls as a poll worker.  While my father had brought me to the polls as a youth whenever he voted; and, later on, having voted myself when I first became of age to participate (in 1976, firs...

Attached image (screenshot of post): Earlier this evening, after browsing the three editions of Montpelier's Front Porch Forum (FPF) posted today (Monday, February 26, 2024), I noticed a very brief post posted within the top of the third edition -- under the category of lost and found -- about how a package had been misdelivered to the wrong address. It was the correct number listed for the address, but had been delivered to the wrong street. Having known the person who the package was addressed to and intended for, I texted and emailed them to provide the person with a heads up concerning it. They texted me back later, thanking me. This brought to mind an old, humorous, FPF post of mine posted on the subject of misdelivered packages a couple of years ago (circa: January 2022): Text of post (excerpted; copied and pasted): After reading lots of posts posted to this particular forum over the years and also recently concerning misdelivered packages as well as having seen many delive...