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Disclaimer

The Town of New Salem website and its contents are provided solely to facilitate public access to information. The Town of New Salem, its employees and volunteer committee members will make every effort to ensure that information on this website is accurate and up-to-date. The Town of New Salem does not, however, guarantee the accuracy, currency, quality, completeness or reliability of this information. In any situation where the official printed publications of the Town differ from the text contained in this website, the official printed publications shall take precedence.

The Town of New Salem will not assume any legal liability for any misrepresentations, errors, or omissions that may occur. Further, the Town of New Salem, its employees and its volunteer committee members shall not be held liable for any damages resulting from any use of this website or from reliance on information contained within. The content of this web site is subject to change without notice.

The Town of New Salem website contains many links to other websites for the convenience of its users. The Town of New Salem does not guarantee the accuracy, currency, quality, completeness, reliability, or suitability of such information and assumes no liability for any misrepresentations that may occur on these external sites. Further the Town of New Salem does not endorse any opinions or products associated with any of these external sites.

Terms of Use

Any attempt to modify, destroy or damage this website, or its contents, or to use this website in ways not intended, is strictly prohibited and punishable according to the relevant statutes of Massachusetts and federal law.

Communications to the Town of New Salem via this web site shall in no way be deemed to constitute legal or official notice to the Town of New Salem, its agencies, departments, boards, commissions, officers, employees, representatives or agents with respect to any existing, pending or future claim or cause of action against the Town of New Salem or any of its agencies, departments, boards, commissions, officers, employees, representatives or agents where notice is required by federal, state or local law. No communications to the Town of New Salem via this web site shall be deemed to constitute legal or official notice for any purpose.

This web site and the contents are intended only for the individual, non-commercial use of web site users. No user of this web site may resell, republish, print, download or copy any portion of this web site or the contents for commercial use without the prior written consent of the Town of New Salem, except that reasonable copying or printing of its contents for individual, non-commercial use is permitted. All City and email addresses whether visibly published as a contact address or programmed into the functionality of this site, are provided and maintained by the Town of New Salem solely for its official use. They may not be bought, sold, leased or used for any non-official government communication. Any other use constitutes abuse and may be subject to prosecution.

For more information or to report inaccuracies or out-of-date material, please contact us at (978) 544-6437.

Web Accessibility


Website Accessibility Design Guidelines:

The Town of New Salem website makes every possible effort to make this website compliant with the American with Disabilities Act. If you have advice or comments on how we can improve this website’s accessibility for you or for other users who have disabilities, please do let us know.

This website has been designed with the aim of providing accessibility to all users, including those with disabilities:

  • The fonts used throughout this website are standardized and are intended to be easily readable and legible across various devices.
  • The design of this site is intended to rely on text for navigational links (instead of graphics) in order to make the site readable by screen readers and other assistive technology.
  • Our intention is to communicate to you and other site users mainly with textual content instead of relying on color.
  • Whenever possible, we have all images and hyperlinks with appropriate or descriptive “alt text” or alternative text to help.
  • Our intention is to make this website compliant with American with Disabilities Act Section 508 so that it is accessible to all users.
  • We work to comply with Section 508 as well as as the WCAG 2.1 A and AA for accessibility standards.

Should you or anybody else have some difficulty or challenges accessing any part of this site, please contact us directly through this website, via email, through the mail, or call us on the telephone with your questions, concerns, advice, or comments. We will do our best to assist you!

If you use technology to assist with consuming content on this site, including a Braille reader, a screen reader, TTY (Text Telephone) or TDD (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf) and the format, layout, organization or style of any of the content or material on this website interferes or inhibits with your ability to access the information, please contact us. Alternatively, users who need accessibility assistance can contact us by phone through the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 for TTY/Voice communication.

To help us serve you better, please include the following information when contacting us:

  • Describe the nature of your accessibility problem.
  • What is the URL / web address where the information is located.
  • What format would you prefer to receive the content or material provided to you.
  • The best contact information for you.

Web Browser Accessibility Tools:

Nowadays the most popular browsers have accessibility built into it. Likewise the most popular mobile devices (specifically Android and iOS) have accessibility built into their operation systems. It could help you to look at the links below for assistance in optimizing and enhancing your user-experience should you have issues with accessibility:

Other Resources:

  • This site will also contain PDF files, and therefore you may use Adobe Reader to view and print these PDFs. Adobe Reader is a free software program and is available across most popular platforms, devices and operating systems. You can visit the Adobe website to download the software.
  • Should you wish to read any PDF documents with a screen reader, please visit the Adobe Reader Accessibility website and look at the information underneath the section labeled “Accessibility resources” which has helpful information.
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines can also be accessed online.