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Mansfield Town Hall. The town is governed by an open town meeting, and is managed by a select board [20] and town manager. The Mansfield Public Safety Complex, completed in 2019, houses the police and fire departments and is located in Mansfield Center on Route 106. There is also a secondary fire station located in West Mansfield.
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
A representative town meeting, also called "limited town meeting", is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and permitted in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Representative town meetings function largely the same as open town meetings, except that not all registered voters can participate or vote ...
History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (A-H), Volume 2 (L-W) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879 and 1880. 572 and 505 pages. Townsend article by Ithamar B. Sawelle in volume 2, pages 381–390. Divinity and Dust: A History of Townsend, Massachusetts by Richard N. Smith (Lancaster, MA: The College Press, 1978)
MILLBURY — Another Central Massachusetts community has voted to resist the MBTA zoning law, which is designed to increase housing. On Saturday, a Millbury Special Town Meeting voted down an ...
While the Selectmen generally call such a meeting, voters may call one through petition, and the number of signatures required on a petition to call a special town meeting is 200 or 20% of the registered voters, whichever number is lower. The selectmen have 45 days from the date of receiving such a petition to hold a special town meeting.
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.
Townsend village is located in northwestern Middlesex County at (42.667688, -71.706019), [3] slightly east of the center of the town of Townsend Massachusetts Route 13 passes through the center of the village, leading south 11 miles (18 km) to Leominster and north 13 miles (21 km) to Milford, New Hampshire.