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NGX is volunteer-driven and community-focused. We seek to be an informative, inclusive, accurate, and lively resource by, for, and about New Gloucester.

What We Publish
We publish volunteer-written and –submitted material of local interest, including news stories, events, opinion pieces, essays, photos and videos, long-form articles, and more. All of these are vetted by our editors in accordance with our values and guidelines.

We also aggregate news articles and other information of local interest, with links to the source. In addition, we run ads for local businesses and organizations.

For details and email links for submitting events, articles and opinion pieces, photos and more, please check our Submissions page.

Our Editorial Values and Standards

NGX is volunteer-driven and community-focused. We seek to be an informative, inclusive, accurate, and lively resource by, for, and about New Gloucester.  The New Gloucester Xchange is a free community site by, for and about New Gloucester, run entirely by volunteers. Together we strive to make NGX a reliable source of information and contributions from and about the community.

What We Publish
We publish volunteer-written and –submitted material of local interest, including news stories, events, opinion pieces, essays, photos and videos, long-form articles, and more. All of these are vetted by our editors in accordance with our values and guidelines.

We also aggregate news articles and other information of local interest, with links to the source. In addition, we run ads for local businesses and organizations.

For details and email links for submitting events, articles and opinion pieces, photos and more, please check our Submissions page.

Our Editorial Values and Standards
Our editors make the final determination about what content to publish on our website and what to allow as online comment on our social media sites.  We reserve the right to modify content and to delete or decline to publish in accordance with our values and guidelines. We strive to ensure that a variety of views and voices are represented, and we may also edit for length, clarity, style, content and accuracy, sometimes through a back-and-forth exchange with the writer.

We are also neighbors. As a result, all content, including readers’ comments on our social media sites, must meet standards not only of relevance and accuracy, but also of respect, fairness, civility, and honesty. Content that is inappropriate includes but is not limited to material that in our judgment we believe

  • may violate others’ intellectual property rights or privacy rights
  • may constitute or promote racism, hatred, libel or defamation of any kind against another group or individual
  • is abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous or unlawful
  • is profane, in evident poor taste, obscene, or false or misleading
  • is disrespectful, dishonest or unfair or
  • does not qualify as by, for, or about New Gloucester

Online on social media, we welcome comments that add information, provide context or relevant questions or add personal experience and which respond thoughtfully to NGX posts and to others’ comments. We ask that comments online stay constructive, concise and on-topic. Plenty of other avenues are available for views on general or national topics.

Given the proliferation of dubious sites, accounts, and false or misleading information online, we will err on the side of deleting comments, links, photos or other material we can’t readily verify or vouch for. We may also delete comments that in our judgment are of limited interest to the community or that have devolved into personal back-and-forth exchange, and we may disallow comments altogether on certain stories or posts.

Our editors make all final determinations in their sole judgment and discretion on the content we publish on our website and permit online. If you have questions, please contact us at editor@ngxchange.org

As an entirely volunteer-driven undertaking, we do our best to ensure the fairness, accuracy, and appropriateness of what we publish, but we are not responsible for erroneous, inaccurate, or incomplete information, nor are we responsible for site visitors’ use of material published here.

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