The Village Newsletter….

Every January the village newsletter arrives in our letter box.

The Village Newsletter

This thirty page booklet starts with ‘Le Mot du Maire’, where the mayor spouts on about what he has done during the last year and what he is going to do this year.

Then, the minutes of all of the village council meetings during the last year. The communes income and expenditure is also scrutinised in some detail.

Births, deaths and marriages are all recorded in ‘La Vie communale’ along with any personnel changes at the Mayors’ office.

The school and each of the village clubs are given a page to promote themselves, so I now know when the trout when be let loose in the village pond, that the football club is looking for a referee and that the boules club are looking for some more younger members as  a lot of the membership retired last year.

The last couple of pages are dedicated to practical information… the opening hours of the Mayors’ office and the local dump and when we need to put out our bins.

These village newsletters are put together by the mayor and his secretary. There are no glossy photos, no adverts, no hype, just village information… strangely refreshing.