Submit a Community Event or Announcement
Community Calendar and Announcement Guidelines
The Community Calendar is designed to cover local events that are of general interest to the Wilton community. It is best suited to events which take place on a single day, or at most two days.
Longer events, such as a three-month long clothing drive, or the
multi-week Giving Tree, should be put in a news article so that a single
event doesn’t take up every day of the week on the Community Calendar.
- Location:
Events must be located in Wilton. Exception is made for Lyndeborough
events that are co-sponsored by a Wilton organization such as the
Wilton-Lyndeborough Women’s Club, or the WLC school district.
- Event Description: All important information about the event should be placed in the description itself, in plain text, including the date, time, and location
of the event. Flyers and graphic images should be attached to the event
as PDFs rather than added as an image in the description. These images
do not scale well on mobile devices, and are generally unreadable.
- Fees:
Events should be free except for non-profits who charge an entrance or
ticket fee (e.g. Andy’s Summer Playhouse, High Mowing School), or a
participation fee for a fundraising event. Public service courses such
as CPR classes sponsored by the Fire Department, Health Clinics, classes
at the Library, etc. may also charge a fee for materials or
certifications.
- Sponsors: Events must be
sponsored or co-sponsored by a Wilton-based organization. While events
held by the Library, FRES/WLC, and High Mowing are usually posted on
their own websites (which is where patrons know to look for them), all
of these organizations are welcome to post important events of wide
interest on the town Community Calendar as well.
- Commercial Businesses:
The Community Calendar is not the place to promote events held by
individual businesses in town, e.g. discount sales taking place in a
store, online promotions, holiday promotions, etc. The proper place for
these is on the Merchants and Residents of Wilton Facebook page.
- Political Events:
Campaign events for individual candidates are not allowed.
Multi-candidate forums, such as Wilton’s Candidates Night, or a League
of Women’s Voters Congressional Candidates event (held in Wilton) are
allowed.
Announcements and News articles
should be non-commercial and of general interest to the Wilton
community (we'll make an exception for commercial announcements that
directly support or relate to a town event such as Summerfest).
These could include:
• changes to operating hours at town facilities;
• disrupted, changed, or new town services;
• festival information;
• Wilton residents, town employees, & local businesses in the news.
(Updated March 5, 2020)
Submit an event to the Community Calendar
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Submit a Community Announcement or News Article
Note
that events and announcements are edited and posted by hand as time
permits. We try to be prompt but please understand that submissions will
likely not appear immediately and plan accordingly.