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🌱 How Chittenden neighbors tracked down a missing 180-pound dog statue
Chittenden, Vermont Patch AM: a 3 min readHello Chittenden! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☀️
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- How Chittenden neighbors tracked down a missing 180-pound dog statue
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- Saturday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 62 and low of 39 degrees.
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📰 News we're reading
• A beloved dog statue was returned to a Chittenden couple after it went missing from their property (mynbc5.com) — A Chittenden innkeeper has been reunited with a 180-pound statue of his late basset hound after it vanished from outside the Fox Creek Inn two weeks ago. Neighbors, local media, and the wider Chittenden community rallied to search, and a nearby landowner finally spotted the statue near Chittenden Reservoir and brought it safely home. 
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🗞 Nearby News
Pittsford
- Favorable weather brings bumper pumpkin crop to Pittsford farm (wcax.com)
Brandon
- Longtime Brandon chef prepares to hang up his apron (wcax.com)
- Rutland-9 District candidates talk priorities and approaches at Brandon public forum (rutlandherald.com)
- Letters: Klar says Burlington aid must have strings, Stearns gives Nielsen high rating (vermontdailychronicle.com)
Killington
- The State Parks With Trees Older Than The Country (worldatlas.com)
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