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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.