A closer look at local storytelling. This LOCAL 10 special edition explores how the HastingsNow team selects useful updates—and how you can use the daily brief to feel more connected to Hastings. AI-assisted hero design based on a HastingsNow photograph.
LOCAL 10: A Simple Way to Keep Up With Hastings
Before you head out, a small detail can change the plan: a shop’s winter hours, a registration cutoff or the address for a community service. Finding that detail while it still helps is the idea behind LOCAL 10.
Published by HastingsNow.com, LOCAL 10 is a reviewed daily brief of ten local items with links to sources. This special edition explains what you can get from it, how the HastingsNow team chooses the items and where your own knowledge of Hastings can help.
1. Ten starting points for your day
A brief gives you a manageable place to begin. Scan the headings, read the items that fit your life and follow a link when you need more detail.
Your interest may change from day to day. A school update might matter on Monday; a job opening or weekend plan might catch your eye next. You can use LOCAL 10 as a quick check-in, then spend more time with what matters to you.
2. Catch the detail with a deadline
The November 2, 2026, edition highlighted the final day of early voting at Hastings City Hall and linked to the city’s voting information. That item tied a civic task to a specific date.
For your own planning, look for the date, cutoff and who the information applies to. Add the deadline to your calendar and save the original link. When someone forwards an older edition, check its publication date before treating a reminder as current.
3. See beyond the places you already follow
Even if you keep up with your school or favorite shops, other local organizations may have information that matters to you.
The October 31, 2026, edition included the Coats for Kids announcement at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, naming Knights of Columbus Council 1600 and Hastings Family Service’s winter-accessory support. The listed distribution date has passed. For someone looking for a child’s coat, the useful details were the place, hours and whether an appointment was needed.
4. AI helps find updates across local sources
Discovery draws on local organizations’ public posts and announcements, with original websites and official pages providing supporting detail. The selection guidance covers subjects including public services, school information, jobs, events and local business updates.
AI helps surface local updates, and the HastingsNow team reviews and selects the final ten. The HastingsNow team can also consider updates from the broader pool of information. An AI suggestion is a starting point for consideration.
5. The HastingsNow team makes the editorial choice
The daily selection guidance puts usefulness, timing, local relevance, source accountability and public value at the center. It also considers whether a reader can act on an update and whether the mix includes different sources and categories.
Who an update serves matters, too. A reminder intended for school families needs to stay clear about that audience. The HastingsNow team decides which items belong in the brief, with attention to what residents can understand and use.
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6. Follow the link when you are ready to act
An item gives you the essential context; its source link takes you closer to the person or organization responsible for the information. That is where you can look for registration details, an application or the full announcement.
Reviewed means the brief has had human editorial review. As HastingsNow’s editorial standards explain, it does not mean every claim in an organization’s announcement has been independently investigated. Use the link to read the details that matter to your decision.
7. A useful business update answers a real question
In the November 3, 2026, edition, Goat Brush Removal’s pumpkin-pickup update addressed a timely household question: what happens to the pumpkins after Halloween? The brief pointed readers toward the business to ask about arrangements.
When preparing an update, help a resident understand what is happening, whom it serves, when and where, and any cost or deadline. Include registration and accessibility information when available, plus a clear source link. Those details help someone decide whether the update is relevant to them.
8. You can help make the information clearer
Residents may notice a missing detail because they know the place, use the service or attended the event. Useful context can be as simple as identifying the exact announcement that needs another look.
For a correction or concern, email info@HastingsNow.com with the page link and a short explanation, following the published corrections guidance. Include supporting information when you have it. That gives the HastingsNow team something specific to review. You do not need to represent a business to point out something that needs attention.
9. Make it easy to find again
Open the LOCAL 10 page on your phone or computer and bookmark it. Each dated edition offers a way to return to an item you want to read more closely or share.
For audio, HastingsNow’s podcast page directs listeners to LOCAL 10 on Spotify. Check the episode date and use the written brief when you need the original source links.
10. Think of the person who could use one item
You may have no reason to join a class, apply for a job or follow a youth program. Someone you know might. A brief becomes more useful when a relevant item reaches the person it fits.
Share the edition or its original source with a short explanation of why you thought of them. Include the date when timing matters. A simple “This looked useful for your plans” can give a neighbor a good place to start.
Read the latest LOCAL 10, follow what is useful to you and pass along one item that could help someone else.
