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Montachusett Update reads the agendas and minutes that town and city boards post online and turns them into short, plain-English summaries, usually within a few hours of a document appearing.

Towns covered: Fitchburg, MA, Leominster, MA, Gardner, MA, Lunenburg, MA.

Summaries are written automatically from the official documents and checked against them by software before they are published: every dollar figure, vote and name in a summary must appear in the source. Each summary links to the original document, which is always the official record.

Agendas are previews of what a board plans to discuss; nothing on an agenda has been decided. Draft minutes are marked as drafts until the board approves them.

Spotted a mistake, or want your town or board covered? Write to [email protected].