📋 SAMPLE ISSUE — Issue #003 of the design prototype (latest). Beats show the daily format; news slots are placeholders until the paper goes live. Nothing here is published or sent.
Sundays run quiet, which makes them the day to get ahead: town boards meet this week, school fall calendars snap into focus. This issue answers the questions people actually search — who picks up your recycling, where the transfer station is, when school starts. Each answer lands in the first sentence, source in the third. That's the format every day; today it's the whole issue.
📋 SAMPLE SLOT — live issues carry the real, cited story of the day.
Search answers
The questions Putnam actually searches — answer first, source after. SAMPLE SLOTS until each is sourced at send time.
Who picks up recycling in Putnam County?
Your town does — curbside recycling in Putnam is run town by town, not by the county. In the Village of Brewster, recycling goes out Fridays alongside trash (trash runs Tuesday and Friday). Everywhere else, call your town hall: Southeast (which includes Brewster village services) can be reached at 845-279-8206.
The county waste and recycling operations run out of Brewster — the Putnam County Department of Health, which oversees recycling, sits at 1 Geneva Road, Brewster (845-808-1390). Town transfer stations and drop-off days vary; your town hall has the schedule.
Source: putnamcountyny.gov
When does school start in Putnam County?
SAMPLE SLOT — most Putnam districts open the Tuesday after Labor Day, but each district sets its own calendar. The six districts — Carmel, Brewster, Mahopac, Garrison, Haldane, Putnam Valley — publish start dates on their district sites. We confirm each one at send time.
Source: district calendars · confirmed per issue before send
First day answers, board nights, and the deadlines parents actually miss — one place, sourced to district calendars. Meetings you can't attend get summarized here the next morning.
Sources: district calendars · board agendas · Tag: Schools
📋 SAMPLE SLOT — populated from real district agendas at send time.
The week's scheduled lane closures, paving, and announced Harlem Line work at Brewster and Southeast — plus the spots that flood first. Forward this to the neighbor who commutes.
Sources: town highway departments · MTA · Tag: Transit
The week's business news plus the free library AI sessions — email, job applications, spotting fakes, plain English, no laptop needed. Business Spotlight runs here too; first one goes to an early reader, free — reply SPOTLIGHT.
⚠️ SAMPLE ITEM — verify the class schedule against the library calendar before any send.
🤖 AI Corner — one plain-English AI thing, every issue
This week: make AI write your email in 60 seconds.
Say exactly what you want, to whom, and how it should sound — like telling a helpful intern: "Write a short, friendly email to my landlord asking to fix the kitchen faucet; polite but firm." Copy, read it once, change two words so it sounds like you, send. That's the whole skill.
Free library classes teach this hands-on — schedule in Business & Tech above. Reply with questions; they become future AI Corners.
