# The Small Print

Once a month, the things in the packets that never made it to the podium. Short items, each with the document it came from.

- **[Thirty-One Years of Valley Banking](https://ashlandfreepress.com/the-small-print/2026-09-30-thirty-one-years-of-valley-banking)** — 2026-09-30 — The first monthly Small Print: a consultant's notes marked confidential in a public council packet, a utility discount that asked 495 households for an energy audit and got six in its first year, $147,770 to design a school retrofit the same winter the district weighs a smaller footprint, and shorter items from September's packets.

Source: https://ashlandfreepress.com/the-small-print