We built Town News Now to make sure residents never have to wonder what's going on in their community. Our websites deliver that coverage every day, but we kept hearing the same request from readers: can you just send me the highlights? Starting this week, we can. We're launching town-specific newsletters for every community in our network, giving residents a simple way to stay informed without having to check in on their own.
Here's how it works. Visit your town's website and sign up with your email address. From there, you choose the topics you care about — government, sports, community, opinions, or any combination of the four. Each week, our platform reviews everything it's covered for your town, identifies the most important stories across your selected categories, and delivers a clean, readable summary straight to your inbox. No clutter, no filler, just the news that matters to you.
The summaries aren't just headlines stitched together. Our system uses the same context-aware technology that powers our articles to build each newsletter from the ground up. It understands which stories carried the most weight during the week, which issues are developing across multiple meetings or boards, and what residents have been paying attention to. The result is a weekly briefing that reads like it was written by someone who's been following your town closely — because, in a very real sense, our platform has been.
We designed the newsletter system to put residents in control. If you're the kind of person who wants to know every vote the selectboard took but couldn't care less about high school football scores, you can set it up that way. If you want all four categories, you'll get the full picture. Preferences can be updated anytime, and you can unsubscribe with a single click. We want this to be useful, not another piece of email you dread opening.
This launch represents something we've been working toward since day one — meeting residents where they are. Not everyone has time to browse a news site regularly, but almost everyone checks their email. By bringing our coverage directly to readers on their terms, we're making it that much easier to stay connected to the decisions and events shaping your community. Head to your town's page to sign up and give it a try.