BarnstableWatch News

BarnstableWatch News is a volunteer, citizen-run, on-line publication to bring you fast, easy, unbiased news about what's happening in your Town Government.

What's talked about in your Town Hall will affect you. The days when we picked up the local paper and read about it are over.

BarnstableWatch News will let you know what goes on - pretty much right away - during hours and hours and hours of local meetings about issues that will affect your town, your village, your home, your water, your wallet, your schools, and more. You can catch up in just a few minutes.

Here's how.

"Subscribe" to get ~one email per week summarizes that week's meetings.

Check in regularly at BarnstableWatchNews.com for meeting summaries as they happen (...more or less...)

Follow @BarnstableWatchNews on Facebook to read summaries there.

Promoting Public Accountability and Civic Engagement.

Our purpose is to share information about current complex local issues, and the decision-making dialogue about them, to promote public accountability and foster civic engagement.

No Slant.

AI helps us to bring you straight meeting summaries with no slant, no bias, no political point of view. We provide a link to the meeting video so you can click and listen in.

Wherever we report related facts not discussed in a meeting, those facts will be rigorously and clearly documented.

Corrections welcome.

We are AI supported and AI makes mistakes. We appreciate and encourage corrections. Send correction requests to BarnstableWatch@gmail.com.

Opinions.

Any opinion will be confined to posts clearly labeled "Opinion."

Be on the lookout for Letters to the Editor opportunities. The demise of local press has meant the demise of avenues for citizens with diverse views, and facts, to share them, and influence others' thinking. If Barnstable is one thing, it is a place smart people choose to live. Let's get back to smart, civil, succinct, citizen discourse in the form of diverse Letters to the Editor.

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