📋 SAMPLE ISSUE — Issue #003 of the design prototype (latest). Beats show the daily format; news slots are placeholders until the paper goes live. Nothing here is published or sent.
Sundays run quiet, which makes them the day to get ahead: city council meets this week, school fall calendars snap into focus. This issue answers the questions people actually search — who picks up your recycling, where the transfer station is, when school starts. Each answer lands in the first sentence, source in the third. That's the format every day; today it's the whole issue.
📋 SAMPLE SLOT — live issues carry the real, cited story of the day.
Search answers
The questions New Rochelle actually searches — answer first, source after.
When is the New Rochelle farmers market?
Saturdays at the Grand Market, 1 Library Plaza downtown — June through October, a farmers market and festival in one. Dates and vendor lists run in the weekly issue once the season's confirmed.
Source: newrochelledowntown.com — New Rochelle Grand Market
When does leaf pickup start in New Rochelle?
Fall leaf collection starts October 13, 2026. Leaves go out in biodegradable paper bags or open containers, 75 lbs max each. Regular yard waste pickup ends October 30 — after that, it's leaf season rules only.
Source: newrochelleny.gov — Fall Leaf Collection & Yard Waste Recycling
When does school start in New Rochelle?
The City School District of New Rochelle — one district, ten schools — opens after Labor Day; the exact date posts on the district calendar. We confirm it in the issue before the first send.
Source: district calendars · confirmed per issue before send
First day answers, board nights, and the deadlines parents actually miss — one place, sourced to district calendars. Meetings you can't attend get summarized here the next morning.
Sources: district calendars · board agendas · Tag: Schools
📋 SAMPLE SLOT — populated from real district agendas at send time.
The week's scheduled lane closures, paving, and announced New Haven Line work at New Rochelle — plus the spots that flood first. Forward this to the neighbor who commutes.
The week's business news plus the free library AI sessions — email, job applications, spotting fakes, plain English, no laptop needed. Business Spotlight runs here too; first one goes to an early reader, free — reply SPOTLIGHT.
⚠️ SAMPLE ITEM — verify the class schedule against the library calendar before any send.
🤖 AI Corner — one plain-English AI thing, every issue
This week: make AI write your email in 60 seconds.
Say exactly what you want, to whom, and how it should sound — like telling a helpful intern: "Write a short, friendly email to my landlord asking to fix the kitchen faucet; polite but firm." Copy, read it once, change two words so it sounds like you, send. That's the whole skill.
Free library classes teach this hands-on — schedule in Business & Tech above. Reply with questions; they become future AI Corners.
