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🌱 How Colchester neighbors can help families choose their own Thanksgiving dinner

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Colchester neighbors can help families choose their own Thanksgiving dinner
  • Tried Colchester's new Exit 16 diverging diamond yet? Here's why it matters

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Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Cloudy, with a high of 60 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Some sun, then clouds; warmer, temps: high: 70, low: 59.
  • Thursday: Cloudy and breezy; p.m. rain, with a high of 75 and low of 62 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Colchester Food Shelf seeks food and monetary donations so families can choose their own protein for Thanksgiving (colchestersun.com) — Colchester residents are being asked to help the local Community Food Shelf at 242 Main Street fund $15 grocery gift cards so families can choose their own Thanksgiving protein instead of receiving only turkeys. The shelf, now serving about 180 households a month, will also host a donation day on Saturday, Nov. 14 and is seeing more families with children, seniors on fixed incomes, and neighbors quietly helping one another.
   

• Drivers Treat Roundabouts Like Brussels Sprouts — Until They Try One (compassvermont.com) — Colchester drivers recently got a preview of the new Exit 16 diverging diamond interchange when VTrans set up a simulator at the Champlain Valley Fair, helping locals practice the unusual left-side traffic pattern. The piece uses Bennington's new peanut-shaped roundabout to explore why communities often resist roundabouts at first, then grow to support them as safety and traffic flow improve.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Burlington

  • Peak fall color expected in the next week across parts of Vermont, New York (mynbc5.com)
  • Burlington man accused of murder in deadly stabbing back in court (mynbc5.com)
  • Mayor announces progress on Burlington's people-first housing strategy (vermontbiz.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hop Squatch! (Thank you Terri R. for sending it in!)
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