Andover, Methuen, and Orleans All Have Video On Demand.

I have discovered three more Massachusetts communities that post videos of public meetings online. The city of Methuen provides live webcasts and on-demand broadcasts of various local government meetings, including city council meetings, school committee meetings, zoning board of appeals meetings, and community development committee meetings. The town of Orleans has videos of the meetings of at least ten different town committees and boards available for downloading on its website. Many of the videos date back as far back as July 2008. Finally, the town of Andover's community access channel provides live webcasts of local government meetings and video downloads of the meetings of at least five local government boards and committees, as well as League of Women Voters meetings. The videos date back to about a year ago.

Unfortunately, none of the on demand videos of all three of these communities allow the viewer to jump ahead to a particular spot on the agenda for the meeting, although the Orleans videos allow the viewer to skip around on the video to different spots. In any event, the citizens of Methuen, Andover, and Orleans now have greater access to information about local government meetings.