Except as otherwise provided in Section 9-2-113, a notice of such an award of contract shall be published in one or more newspapers, designated by the board of local improvements in an order entered in its records, published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.