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Guidelines for Natick Report letters to the editor

Natick Report accepts letters to the editor. Letters must be of general local community interest and must be signed. Community shout-outs are also accepted (example: a non-profit may thank an organization for a donation received).

Send letters to the editor to natickreport@gmail.com

The deadline is Wednesday at noon for letters to appear on Friday.

Election-related letters to the editor will not run the week before the election.

The last deadline for election-related letters to the editor to run is Wednesday, March 15. Those letters will run  Friday, March 17.

Submitting a letter to the editor does not guarantee that your letter will be posted on Natick Report.

Letters must be written for Natick Report only—we do not accept form-type letters sent to multiple news agencies.

More on guidelines

We strive not to cut letters for space, but please keep word count to under 1,500 words. Letters may be edited by Natick Report for length or clarity.

Letters must include the author’s first and last name.

Please include a phone number and street address to allow confirmation.

Letters must include the writer’s address. The street name will appear in the published letter, unless the letter writer expresses a preference for the more generic “Natick resident.” The street number and phone number will not appear.

Natick Report reserves the right to reject letters for publication due to matters of taste and/or inaccuracy.

Letters are voices from the community and do not represent Natick Report in any way.

Authors are limited to one letter published per month.

We do not permit hate speech, name-calling and personal attacks; gratuitous links to your personal website, political party/campaign, or product/service you represent.


Election letter guidelines

Please see above—the same rules apply for election letters.

Letters endorsing candidates; pro/con on ballot initiatives; “get out the vote” type letters; etc. are accepted.

As a general policy, if a sampling of letters on a particular issue has already been published, subsequent letters on that same issue may not be published.

No election-related letters will be published the week before the election.

Submitting a letter to the editor does not guarantee that your letter will be posted on Natick Report.

Generally speaking, we are willing to run a few letters of endorsement per candidate as well as a few letters about any one issue over the course of the campaign. We would not run letters that are virtual carbon copies of each other.

What Natick Report wants to avoid is serving as a platform for a concerted campaign that is trying to shut out other voices by trying to flood our letters to the editor page with their own agenda.

Please limit the number of signers…we contact letter writers to confirm authenticity and don’t have time to reach out to multiple signers.

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