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Students from Northeastern University and Emerson College will contribute neighborhood news to Your Town, Boston.com‘s network of hyperlocal news sites, under terms of separate agreements with both universities.

There are currently 50 Your Town sites up and running, covering neighborhoods or towns in and around Boston.

The Boston Globe regional editor David Dahl said:

We’re delighted with this collaboration. It provides Your Town readers with even more local coverage and enriches the educational experience of Emerson and Northeastern students.

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Your Town the local community network of sites from Boston.com, is now in 17 Boston neighborhoods, as the six sites that went live earlier this year — Allston-Brighton, Back Bay, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, South Boston, and South End — were joined by 11 new sites.

The Your Town sites feature neighborhood event listings, library locations, fire-station locations, public health resources, voter information, City Council meeting information, the ability to report public works issues such as potholes, local MBTA schedules, real estate listings, and companion iPhone apps that include navigation help.

The 11 new neighborhoods are Beacon Hill, Charlestown, Downtown, East Boston, Fenway/Kenmore, Hyde Park, Mattapan, North End, Roslindale, Roxbury, and West Roxbury.

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Boston.com will roll out the first six of 16 planned hyperlocal Your Town sites for individual neighborhoods, with the initial half-dozen being Allston/Brighton, Back Bay, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, South Boston, and the South End, and the remaining 10 scheduled to debut by the end of the fall.

The sites will be populated by local correspondents working with staff from Boston.com and The Boston Globe, covering topics including local politics, crime statistics, and transportation, and users will be able to pay town and city bills online; access trash and recycling schedules; order parking permits; report potholes and other public-works issues; follow high school sports, including schedules; and access listings of neighborhood events and real estate.

The Boston Globe and Boston.com vice president of digital Robert Kempf said:

Boston truly is a city of neighborhoods, and each has a distinctive identity. We believe adjusting the Your Town model to include coverage of neighborhoods will be the most useful way to serve Bostonians. It is hyperlocal journalism at its best.