For weather, use the smart phone app from NOAA, great for information about lightening on the golf course on a nice partly cloudy day, so you have a bit of a warning of how close danger might by
Sign up with the electric company for text alerts for electrical outages, which may be obvious if home, but not if not. .
for the district news, as stated above,
For everything else? not sure the need
like the local news web site, can generation neurosis
