About Nanopress

Nanopress is a short morning email about what's happening in your town. Local government, schools, new restaurants, road work, and weekend plans, compiled fresh every day. It's free.

Our mission

Keeping up with your town shouldn't take work. What's happening where you live is scattered across dozens of places. Decisions at town hall, school news, road closures, openings, weekend events. Nobody has time to check them all. We built software that does that reading every morning and compiles it into one short email, free, so knowing your town takes two minutes a day.

What we care about is what happens after you read: more people at the town meeting, at the school play, at the place that just opened. A town where more people know what's going on is a town where more people take part.

Who makes this

Nanopress is made by two people, founders Winston Chen and Marcus Botnen-Chen. We live in Arlington and read the same brief you do.

Nanopress is published by Opus Noma LLC, PO Box 59, Arlington, MA 02476.

How the brief is made

Every morning, our software starts by searching online for anything about your town. That's the raw material. A multi-step process then selects, checks each item against the page it came from, drops anything it can't confirm, and assembles a short digest. We love the look of early search engines: you get a plain list, and every item links to its source.

We're not journalists. Local journalism is irreplaceable, and our job is to send it readers: each item is a short pointer to a story, never the story itself, with the credit going to the original publisher. Publishers can reach us at publishers@nanopress.net.

When we get it wrong

We will get things wrong. Reply to any edition, or write news@nanopress.net. One of us reads and approves every reply before it sends, and the correction runs at the bottom of the next morning's brief.