Web Communications Committee

It is the responsibility of the Web Communications Committee to provide the public with up-to-date information about Shutesbury and its governance.  To that end, the Committee maintains an official Town website and manages a Town Announcements subscription list for email distribution of news from Town officials, but those are not the Town’s only official means of communication with Shutesbury residents.

  • Town news and updates are posted on the Home page of the official Town website (www.shutesbury.org). Click on any of the home page menus/tabs for a list of pages with detailed information on committees, departments, meetings, services, Town governance, and Town officials, as well as an array of How-to guides for municipal participation.

  • Scheduled meetings of Town committees, boards, and commissions are posted on the Town Calendar and MyTownGovernment, providing date/time, agenda, and zoom link (if needed).

    • To view the recording of a particular committee’s (virtual) meeting, go to Shutesbury’s YouTube channel, enter the meeting date (m/d/yy) in the search field, and select your meeting of interest from the search results.

    • To read the minutes of a particular committee meeting, go to the Town Website and click on the name listed on the Committees & Boards menu.  Minutes are listed by date at the righthand bottom of the committee webpage.

    • To receive notices of a committee's future meetings, go to MyTownGovernment, select/click on the committee you want to follow, and click on “Subscribe to Email Alerts For This Board.”  (You will be asked to login with your email and a password.)  When that committee next schedules a meeting, you will be sent an email from “support@mytowngovernment.org” with full meeting information.

  • Town Announcements are emailed by committees, boards, commissions, or departments to give notice of scheduled activities (such as a nature walk, library program, or lunch gathering), to distribute public health information, to serve notice of a public hearing, or to recruit committee membership. 

    • Town Announcements come from an official “@shutesbury.org” email address. The subject line is the newsworthy event or topic (no, the email isn't labelled a “Town Announcement”).

    • Town Announcements are sent to subscribers of the Town Announcements List.  To subscribe to Town Announcements, fill out the online form here.

  • Critical or urgent messages are sent out through the CodeRED telephone system.  Such calls alert Shutesbury residents to the need for instant attention.

    • CodeRED messages come from caller name “ECN Community.”

    • The CodeRED system includes both emergency messages (such as impending weather conditions) and non-emergency but time-sensitive messages (such as road closures or disruption to the day’s trash collection).

    • CodeRED alerts are called to subscribers of the CodeRED notification system.  To subscribe to the CodeRED notification system, create an account here.

Do you have suggestions or comments for additional content on the Town website?
for easier navigation of the website?  If so, please write to us at web@shutesbury.org.
Thank you!

 

Policies

View a list of recent Town Announcements here.
To receive e-mail Town Announcements, sign up here.

To send a message to the Town Announcement mailing list, send your proposed message to the Web Committee with "Request for Town Announcement" as the email subject line.

  

For Shutesbury Webpage Authors or email users