The Local debuts new online events calendar

Posted 6/30/22

Depending on whether you read your Local online or in print, you may or may not be aware that we recently launched a new, more robust events calendar on chestnuthilllocal.com. 

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The Local debuts new online events calendar

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Depending on whether you read your Local online or in print, you may or may not be aware that we recently launched a new, more robust events calendar on chestnuthilllocal.com. 

This new tool can help you plan your weekends and weeknights more thoroughly, and it can also help you spread the word about events that you or your organization may be planning. 

Here’s how to use it:

First, look for the calendar on the right side of the homepage. You can also access it directly by typing www.chestnuthilllocal.com/events into your browser. 

To see a complete list of happenings, click the SEE ALL EVENTS button. Currently, the calendar is set to display events happening within a 10-mile radius of Chestnut Hill. You can narrow or expand your search, however. Once you are on the events page, you can sort by date and by mile radius.

When you see an event you are interested in, click on it and you will be directed to a page with additional information about the event and a link to the organizer’s website. 

Local organizations and event organizers can easily enter their events in the calendar by clicking on the red “ADD YOUR EVENT” button. Listings are free, but there are also several inexpensive upgrade options as well if you are looking to give your listing more impact. 

But perhaps the best news about this new calendar is that it doesn’t have to be limited to our own backyard. Heading out of town for the summer, and looking for things to do? Easy. Just go to the events page and change your location to your getaway spot. The calendar will automatically compile events listings from whatever spot on the map that you give it.  You can find events for any city in the United States. 

In order to provide you with this service, the Local has contracted with a third-party vendor called CitySpark that searches venue, organization, and entertainment industry websites for events and then populates the calendar with the events, classes and meetings that it finds.  

The Local has served our communities without fail for more than 60 years, and we continue to look for additional ways to be of even greater value to our readers and our advertisers.  

That is becoming increasingly difficult. With rising costs of newsprint, postage, utilities, and other business expenses, we are facing a more challenging time than perhaps at any other time in our existence.  

At the same time, I believe the Local is more useful, more informative, more relevant, and more necessary than it has ever been. Judging by the feedback we’ve been getting, I believe the Local may be more appreciated now than at any time in its history.  

The new calendar is not free to the Local, but we feel it is a valuable new feature that we can offer you and our local organizations. We hope and expect that it will  improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods - by making you aware of all of the wonderful things to do in our community.  

The calendar is an example of our commitment to you, our citizens and our readers. We thank you for your commitment to your community newspaper. 

                                John Derr

                                Publisher