Newtown Patch Readers: Thank You For Helping Us Grow

NEWTOWN, CT — Thank you, Newtown Patch readers, for taking time in your busy days to spend a few moments with Patch. We appreciate your visits and contributions, and we want you to know we take nothing for granted here.

Newtown's is one of the older Patches, debuting in March 24, 2010. In August, Newtown Patch recorded 30,294 visitors. For a town of 27,560 people, that's not too shabby. Our visitors hail from Newtown, for sure, but many residents of neighboring towns also land on Newtown Patch from time to time, too. That figure — compiled and verified through Google Analytics — includes readers on desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile and our app, and our visitors often access Patch on several devices over the month.

Here are 5 of the most-read articles on Newtown Patch in August.

• Five Newtown Retailers Fail Undercover Police Inspections
• Newtown Police Rescue Trapped Deer [VIDEO]
• Here's How Newtown Residents Voted In 2018 Primary Election
• Newtown Firefighters Battle Blaze Set by Lightning Strike
• Alex Jones Accused of Deleting Evidence in Sandy Hook Lawsuit

...but our favorite ongoing local story has centered around the town's selection of the Sandy Hook Memorial design. We'll continue to follow this through the bidding and construction process, up through the site's dedication scheduled for December 2019.

Got a news tip, idea or question? Send them to me, Rich Kirby, your local editor, at rich.kirby@patch.com. Patch is committed to hyperlocal coverage of Newtown, and we couldn't pull it off without all the tips, comments, letters, board and classifieds posts and shares from our readers, so keep 'em coming.

Our readers also love Newtown Patch’s calendar of events — more than 13,037 visits were made to our calendar in 2018. Coming up soon on the calendar are a free program at the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary on monarch butterfly tagging and the “Paint & Sip for a Cure” fundraiser benefiting The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Sounds like a lot of fun in Newtown this month!

If you would like to post on Patch, too, you may easily sign up for a free user profile. As a Patch user, you can post articles, events, jobs, and announcements. And the "rules of Patch" are easy to follow: "no abusive content, no commercial spam, keep it local, and be awesome."

Speaking of awesome, a new bright spot at Newtown Patch is our Patch Mayor program. If you’re interested in being our Newtown Patch Mayor you can help keep Newtown Patch a friendly local spot. Learn more about the Patch Mayor program here.

What else is new? The Newtown Patch newsletter list is up to 3,376 daily subscribers. If you’re not one of them, fix that right away, would you?

On the Facebook front, we're almost at 3,500 fans! If you haven't liked our page yet, please give it a try. If you're already on the page, please share with a friend.

If you own a local business and are interested in getting your message on Newtown Patch or our nearby Patches, please visit this page and tell us what you need. One of our sales reps will be in touch.

Here's another fun fact about Patch: Did you know that Patch is among the 100 most trafficked websites in the United States? Patch ranks 91st on the most viewed websites in the country, according to Alexa. Newtown Patch is part of a broad network, with more than six dozen Patches in Connecticut and more than 1,200 across the United States. That's a lot of local news!

Many news websites are limiting access to free articles, but Patch articles and events by our journalists and our users are always free to view.

We're thrilled you've made Newtown Patch a part of your life. Thank you so much for your support and readership.

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