Politics & Government
La Grange Largely Missing From Facebook Action: Official
Other towns are active on social media, a practice that La Grange should follow, a trustee said.
LA GRANGE, IL – A La Grange trustee on Monday encouraged the village to get its own Facebook page.
"Our neighboring towns do a very good job posting anything from meeting notices to water main breaks to police and fire," Trustee Beth Augustine said at a Village Board meeting. "Like it or not, it's where most people go for local information."
The La Grange Police Department has a Facebook page, while the village shares a page with other area entities.
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"It's not really ours," Augustine said.
Area towns that maintain such pages include Western Springs, Burr Ridge, Darien and Elmhurst. Hinsdale does not have one.
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Augustine said La Grange could post meeting notices, among other things. She said the village put out no notices of its Monday meeting on social media.
"I sometimes post it, but I forget from time to time," she said. "I don't have a lot of reach. I think people would like to get more information and a place to go that they can rely on."
Village President Mark Kuchler said the board would discuss communications as part of its budget meeting next month.
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