The Valley Reporter also received a letter this week from a
Fayston man who got scratched by either a house cat or a rabid fox and
is now undergoing rabies shots. He learned of the rabid fox on the North
Fayston Road because his wife read about it in The Valley Reporter and called him while he was traveling for work to let him know he'd be
stopping for rabies shots on his way home.
The Valley Reporter learned of the rabid fox being shot from
North Fayston Road residents who took the time to call in and report the
incident so other people in the area would know and take the necessary
cautions.
The rabid fox incident (and the story of Nils Behn's series of rabies
shots) can be read on Page 18 and is a perfect example of community
members sharing information via their newspaper. Trading of opinions and
information on alternative energy, health care, and federal
grant/subsidy programs (and rabid foxes) demonstrates how important
community newspapers are to the small towns they serve.
The use of this weekly community newspaper as a forum in which people
exchange ideas, events and happenings belies the rumor that newspapers
are dead. A newspaper is only as engaged as the community it serves and
this newspaper is proud to be one of the means by which people
communicate with one another in the Mad River Valley.
Send us your wedding and birth announcements. Send us the obituaries of
your friends and families. Send us pictures of your pets and your kids
when they graduate from college. Send us pictures of your parents' 50th
wedding anniversary. Send us announcements about auditions and the
Pinewood Derby and the Dummy Big Air competition. Send us press releases
and letters to the editor. Send us your art shots, your foliage shots,
and pictures of veterans, young and old. Send us your gripes. We're
proud to be part of this community.
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