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The week in local government
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Tue, Aug 25, 2026
THE WEEK OF AUG 17–21
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The Rundown
St. Augustine published its King Tides calendar six weeks before the first one - every date, plus the dashboard residents can check themselves. It is the kind of post that only works if you send it before anything happens. Elsewhere: South Elgin posted a board decision the morning after and promised the video, Chickasha turned a grant award into a pavilion residents can picture, and Bartlett married two people in the Japanese Garden and let the bride reply in the comments.
5-minute read · curated from 24,662 posts across the country
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🏆 Post of the Week
St. Augustine publishes the tides six weeks out
· 🔥 one of the week's most-shared posts
Rather than warn residents the morning water reaches the street, St. Augustine posted the whole autumn King Tides calendar in advance - September 9-10, September 27-30, October 9-13, October 25-30, November 7-9, November 23-27 - and named the conditions that make it worse. It also handed residents the Hohonu dashboard so they can check predicted water levels themselves rather than wait to be told. 936 reactions and 271 shares.
| Why it traveled: publishing the dates in advance turns a flood warning into a planning document - and pointing residents at the dashboard means the next six alerts do not all have to come from the city |
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📍 Around the Country
More posts that brought communities together this week.
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South Elgin posts the vote before the video
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION & BOARDS
The morning after a long board meeting, South Elgin posted the outcome in four sentences - the Board of Trustees voted unanimously to deny an annexation petition - and committed to publishing the meeting video later that day. Residents got the decision from the village rather than from rumour. Why it works: posting the result the next morning, with the record promised and dated, is what stops a contested decision being defined by whoever posts about it first
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Chickasha turns a grant into a pavilion
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Chickasha announced a TSET Healthy Incentive Grant and, in the same breath, what it buys: a pavilion at Shannon Springs Park. Grant announcements usually name the funder and stop there. Why it works: naming the physical thing the money becomes is what lets a resident picture it - a grant is an abstraction, a pavilion is a place
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Bartlett marries two people in the Japanese Garden
EVENTS & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Bartlett filed a wedding photo into its running "Weddings in the Park" album and congratulated Victoria and Chief Corey by name. The bride replied in the comments to thank the city, and the city replied back. Why it works: a standing album turns one-off good news into a series residents follow, and replying to the people in the photo is what keeps the thread warm
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📊 By the Numbers
24,662 posts this week | +37% vs. the prior week | 3,807 active governments |
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