as they said “The New York Times isn’t going to write an article about maintenance on highways in the middle-of-nowhere Texas or Colorado”, so it looks like they add informations that are not always backed with citations

I can’t speak for US towns in particular but where I live such information is posted on websites all the time, be it the town’s official newspaper or a local news website.

When English Wikipedia celebrated the millionth article, the topic was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station, “a side-platformed suburban railway station in the Jordanhill area in the West End of Glasgow, Scotland.” So, that type of information is fine.