The Swellesley Report accepts letters to the editor. Letters must be of general local community interest and must be signed. Community shout-outs are also accepted and encouraged. For example, a non-profit may thank an organization for a donation received.
How to submit your letter to the editor
The deadline is Wednesday at noon for letters to appear on Friday EXCEPT the week before the Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Town election.
The week before the Town election, the deadline for letters to the editor is Friday, Feb. 24. Those letters will run Tuesday, Feb. 28.
No letters to the editor will run on Friday, Feb. 24 OR Friday, March 3.
Submitting a letter to the editor does not guarantee that your letter will be posted on The Swellesley Report.
Review of dates for letters to the editor during election season
- Wednesday, Jan. 25, noon—deadline to submit a letter to the editor
Friday, Jan. 27—letters to the editor run - Wednesday, Feb. 1, noon—deadline to submit a letter to the editor
Friday, Feb. 3—letters to editor run - Wednesday, Feb. 8, noon—deadline to submit a letter to the editor
Friday, Feb. 10—letters to editor run - Wednesday, Feb. 15, noon—deadline to submit a letter to the editor
Friday, Feb. 17—letters to editor run - Friday, Feb. 24—no letters to the editor will run
- Friday, Feb. 24, noon—deadline to submit a letter to the editor
Tuesday, Feb 28—letters to editor run - Friday, March 3, no letters to the editor will run
Letters must be written for The Swellesley Report only—we do not accept form-type letters sent to multiple news agencies.
Please review detailed guidelines for letters to the editor here.
Send letters to the editor to theswellesleyreport@gmail.com
Election letter guidelines
Letters endorsing candidates; pro/con on ballot initiatives; “get out the vote” type letters; etc. are accepted.
As a general policy, if a sampling of letters on a particular issue has already been published, subsequent letters on that same issue may not be published.
Generally speaking, we are willing to run a few letters of endorsement per candidate as well as a few letters about any one issue over the course of the campaign. We would not run letters that are virtual carbon copies of each other.
What Swellesley wants to avoid is serving as a platform for a concerted campaign that is trying to shut out other voices by trying to flood our letters to the editor page with their own agenda.
Please limit the number of signers…we contact letter writers to confirm authenticity and don’t have time to reach out to multiple signers.
No election-related letters will be published the week before the election.
Please review detailed guidelines for letters to the editor here.
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