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November 2026: Reader guides, a cleaner email

  • New: Reader guides: boil water notices, school closures, holiday trash pickup, snow parking, power outages, road closures and new restaurants.
  • Better: Every email now has the daily edition’s look, and the daily email ends on one clear button.
  • Better: Signing up no longer asks you to prove you’re human.
  • Better: A new reader’s Events tab fills up right after their first edition.
  • New: A guide for operators on buying a local newspaper.
  • Better: Each event page now lists what else is coming up in that town.

October 2026: A fresh design, and events

  • New: A fresh design for the site and the daily email, with a painted picture for each edition.
  • New: Town pages with tabs for today’s edition, events and more, plus the date and weather on every tab.
  • New: Every event in an edition has its own page, linked straight from the email.
  • New: A free widget that puts a town’s daily newsletter on your own site.
  • New: Guides to following your city council, local news without cable, starting a newsletter, finding sponsors and promoting an event.
  • Better: Readers outside the U.S. can open a new town by confirming their email.

September 2026: Your reader account

  • New: A reader account: manage several towns’ newsletters, the events and listings you sent in, and your classifieds.
  • New: Sign in with a passkey, or with a code by email.
  • Better: What’s On reads as a three-day agenda, and Local Pulse as a list you can scan.

August 2026: Run your own town

  • New: Lease a town: run its newsletter, promote your own business and events in it, and earn from listings.
  • New: Send in an event for free, or buy a featured listing that goes out sooner.
  • New: An Events tab on every town’s page.
  • New: Brand Inspector, a free Chrome extension that pulls any website’s logo, colors and fonts into a brand kit.

July 2026: New home and town pages

  • Better: Redesigned home and town pages, with the weather at the top of each town.

June 2026: The full edition by email

  • Better: The daily email carries the whole edition, the same as the town’s page.

April 2026: Fresher pages

  • Better: Fresh photos for every town, tighter pages, and one weather report shared by the email and the site.

March 2026: MailerDot launches

  • New: A free daily email with local news, weather and events for any U.S. town, written fresh every morning.
  • New: Every town’s past editions on the site, to browse any time.