Events & Meeting Calendar

One calendar residents can read at a glance, covering public meetings and community events without keeping two lists.

Towns usually end up with two calendars: the statutory one for meetings and an informal one for events. They fall out of step, and the resident who wants to know what is happening this weekend has to check both, or ends up at a meeting that moved.

The calendar residents filterBoard meetings and community events on one calendar, with the filter residents actually use at the top.

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One calendar, several audiences

Statutory meetings and community events, togetherResidents do not think in categories. They think in dates, and they want the filter at the top rather than four separate calendars buried under four departments.
Add to my calendarOne tap puts it in the calendar a resident already checks.
Canceled means canceledChange it once and every listing follows, including the banner.
Recurring by defaultA season of meetings is one entry, not forty.

What residents get

Residents do not think in departments. They think in dates. A single calendar with a filter at the top beats four calendars buried under four departments, and it stops the recreation office maintaining a second one because the first was unusable.

A date a resident has to remember is a date a resident will miss. The listing exports to the phone calendar directly, which is the only reminder system that actually gets read.

A canceled meeting that is still listed is worse than no listing at all, because somebody drives to the municipal building for it. Changing it once changes it everywhere it appears.

A board that meets the first Thursday of every month is described once. Individual dates can still be changed or canceled without unpicking the series, which is the part most calendars get wrong.

What staff get

A board that meets the first Thursday of the month is described once. Moving or canceling a single date does not unpick the series, which is the part most calendars get wrong and the reason staff quietly stop trusting them.

There is no second place to update. That removes the most common calendar failure: a listing that says one thing and an agenda page that says another, with residents believing whichever they found first.

Deleting a canceled meeting hides the fact that it was canceled, and somebody drives to the municipal building for it. The listing stays and says so, which is the information residents actually need.

Recreation can post a concert series with no access at all to the zoning board's calendar. One calendar for residents, separate hands behind it.

Kept honest

  • Past entries stay reachable, so a resident can confirm when something happened
  • Events carry structured location and time data, so they can appear correctly in search results and voice assistants
  • The calendar never shows an empty month with no explanation: if nothing is scheduled it says so

Included in every TownFront site

This is part of the core product, not an add-on module. Every TownFront website includes it, and it is built to the same standard as the rest of the site: fast on an ordinary phone connection, navigable by keyboard, readable by a screen reader, and maintainable by your own staff.

See how this would work for your community. Request a conversation and we will walk through your current site and what changes.

Other capabilities

  • One entryFeeds the calendar, the meeting page and the agenda archive
  • Every deviceReadable on a phone at the bus stop, printable at the counter
  • Always currentBecause the person who knows can change it themselves

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