Difference between revisions of "LexWiki:Data Sources"

Revision as of 22:19, 9 May 2013

Town of Lexington Public Records Portal.^[1]
Newspapers
- The Lexington Patch
- The Lexington Minuteman
- Lexington's Colonial Times Magazine
- The boston.com web site (requires subscription)
- The Metro Section of the Boston Globe (requires paid subscription)
Web sites
- http://www.lexingtonma.gov, the Lexington City web site^[2]
- http://lps.lexingtonma.org, the Lexington Public Schools web site
- Mirror of the old 2011 Lexington Public Schools web site
- Assessors Online Database and Registry of Deeds for Lexington, MA
- Town of Lexington's Geographic Information System
- http://02420.com - News aggregation site.^[3]
- Harry Forsdick's http://lexma.weebly.com, a grass roots community web site
General mailing lists
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lex-tmma (viewable publicly, only Town Meeting members can post)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lexington (private, free and open subscription)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lex-polrel (private, free and open subscription)

↑ Note that not all public records are stored as a matter of custom in the Public Records Portal. The easiest way to search through portal content is to use a specialized Google search instead of the Laserfiche search mechanism - i.e. type "site:records.lexingtonma.gov text-to-search..." in the Google search box.
↑ The old version of the Lexington City web site, http://ci.lexington.ma.us, has operated between 2000 and 2014, and can still be browsed at the Internet Archive Way Back Machine
↑ This is a news aggregation site set up by the Lexington Patch, including links to current Lexington Minuteman and Patch news stories.

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 ** http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lexington (private, free and open subscription)
 ** http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lex-polrel (private, free and open subscription)
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