The contributors to the Web site Mariemont.com are pleased that Mayor Policastro has reaffirmed (in his bulletin here) that Mariemont.com is not the ‘official’ website for the Village of Mariemont. Indeed, Mariemont.com is an independent website and has never held itself out as an official website for any portion of the Greater Mariemont experience.
Mariemont.com is a rich repository of information for the residents of Greater Mariemont with a complete listing of the Social Organizations within the Village, a Master Calendar of Village Events, an electronic version and archive of the Village TownCrier, and a fairly comprehensive business directory. In addition, it has a blog where fair, uncensored editorial content may be posted along with featured businesses, performances, events, awards, appointments, schools, sports, meetings, real-estate statistics, medical matters, editorial opinion and so on.
Mariemont.org is the official website of Village Government, but is not the ‘official’ website for the nonprofits, religious organizations, schools, businesses and most individuals residing in the Village.
For several years, council members and some of us have urged the Mayor to upgrade the Mariemont.org website and have even volunteered to help with this effort, but the Mayor has resisted. Now, using the taxpayer’s dime, he has hired an outside design firm to build the site. One wonders who is going to maintain the website with dynamic and current content.
P.S.
The editorial about the legalization of drugs alluded to in the Mayor’s Bulletin was the lead editorial that occupied an entire page on the Cincinnati Enquirer Opinion Page on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 and it can also be accessed on Mariemont.com by viewing the archived September blogs (dated September 1st). Both the Editorial Page Editor for the Enquirer, David Holthaus, and I were surprised that most of the ‘Letters to the Editor’ were very supportive of the ideas expressed in the article.
–Richard Wendel, Editor and an Administrator of Mariemont.com