Old Lyme Hosts Online Survey to Find Out Where Residents Get Their Local News

OLD LYME — The Town of Old Lyme (OL) is carrying out a survey to understand how both seasonal and year-round residents obtain their local news.

The primary purpose of the survey is to understand seasonal residents’ off-season newspaper access and subscriptions. The Town’s current Ordinance requires posting notice of town meetings in major newspapers during the months of November through May. The cost of posting these announcements has risen throughout the past two years.

The Town would like to ensure the Ordinance matches the newspapers that residents rely on for information about Old Lyme Town Meetings.

The survey also seeks to learn more in general about where residents obtain their information regarding Old Lyme news, events, and activities.

Town officials believe that by understanding where residents get their news, OL Departments and Commissions can better consider where to send press releases, or otherwise focus promotion of upcoming activities and events. 

The survey also provides a chance to promote some of the Town of OL’s communication channels, such as the First Selectwoman’s newsletter, Notify Me, Everbridge, and the Town of Old Lyme and OL Emergency Management Facebook pages.

The survey is open to everyone, including property owners as well as those who are not property owners. Those who are not property owners skip straight to questions regarding where they find out about events, activities and news in Old Lyme.

The survey takes approximately four minutes to complete. Of course, we hope you mention LymeLine.com as an important source of local news!

Visit this link to complete the survey.