Last week I posted a blog about the Village of Webster’s new online newsletter. (If you haven’t seen it yet, you really have to check it out.) It’s going to be a valuable resource for all of us who love the village, its people and events.
Just after the Village of Webster introduced its newsletter, the Town of Webster followed suit with a digital newsletter of its own.
The Town of Webster used to have a beautiful weekly newsletter. When it was discontinued late last year, it left a gaping hole in the “what’s-happening-in-the-community” information stream that many of us had come to appreciate. So I was excited to see that the Town is finally trying to fill that hole.
Anyone familiar with that weekly Town newsletter will immediately notice that the new newsletter’s layout is quite a bit different, and it’s not as comprehensive. But it does touch on several topics, including news about Town facilities, Town meetings, road closures and community events.
Specifically, the first newsletter, sent out Aug. 1, included
- a piece about sewer upgrades
- 2025 budget workshop information
- details about closure of Plank Rd.
- a reminder about the Webster Community Night at the Red Wings game
- a rabies vaccination clinic
- a “good news” story about a woman celebrating her 100th birthday
- the town meeting schedule
In Supervisor Flaherty’s July 24 editorial in the Webster Herald, he wrote that
Our goal is to integrate an interactive aid to promote effective communication of Town events, news and good news into how the Town communicates with its citizens … The plan is to have this newsletter go out every first day of the month.
I think the effort is a good start, but I’d love to see a newsletter sent out more frequently than once a month. And as it matures, hopefully it will be expanded to include lots more information about people and events happening in our town.
Click here to sign up to receive the newsletter. (I can’t seem to find a link to the actual newsletter on the Town web page; if anyone sees such a link, please let me know.)
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(posted 8/10/2024)
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