Back-blogged: Government, Dexter Garden Club

Village government, and how we cover it

I wanted to provide an update on our coverage of the Village Council's fire prevention discussions, which some argue we botched a bit two issues ago. On page 7-A of this week's paper there is a clearer picture in terms of written copy of what the discussion was about.

So far feedback from the village indicates that our followup clarified the issue much more effectively than our first story, which had a portion of the story in text and another portion of it in a video uploaded to the heritage.com video section.

This blog, video, Facebook and a number of other things are new tools that we intend on leveraging to provide you with a variety of content. In human-language, we're trying to provide more ways for you to get the news from us and we're trying to do it faster than before. You may not use all of these things - maybe you're just on Facebook, but don't Twitter. Or maybe you're a blog-crawling newspaper regular who doesn't even know what Facebook and Twitter are.

We want you to be able to use what's comfortable and familiar to you, which is why we're trying to branch into as many different means of digital communication as possible. And we want to get things out there quickly!

Dexter Garden Club teaches Generations Together pre-schoolers about plants

Thank you to Dexter's garden club for inviting me out to witness a really neat program. The children at Generations together got a really neat, dynamic lesson in the plant growth cycle. They also got to put on a play covering how the environment interacts with the plants, from the plucky gardener to the smiling sun (literally the smiling sun, played by one of the little kids holding a drawing of a sun on a pole). The event was capped off by the kids working with some plantings they had done last fall.

Check out the attached photos and the below video for more.