Deadline for Election-Related Submissions is Friday

To readers and users of Stoneham Patch,

I'm Daniel DeMaina, associate regional editor at Patch.

In my time before Patch while working for weekly newspapers, we would not publish any election-related submissions in the final issue before an election, because if there was a factual error, we wouldn't be able to issue a correction before election day.

It's different for us online, since we're publishing every day, but we'd still like to err on the side of caution.

With Stoneham's town election coming up on Tuesday, April 2, we have set a deadline of this Friday, March 29 for any election-related submissions, such as letters to the editor.

This gives us the weekend and Monday as a buffer zone to make any factual corrections, if necessary.

Local Voices blog posts and Announcements may still be posted by Reading Patch users after the deadline. We exercise our editorial discretion in determining what blog posts and Announcements appear on the homepage and newsletter, and will exercise that discretion leading up to the election as well.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at danield@patch.com.