Townsend's annual Town Meeting is pure democracy in action: everybody gets to vote on every decision.

Members of the Republican Town Committee assist with community events, such as band concerts on the common.

The State House on Beacon Hill in Boston houses the governor and the state legislature.

On September 26, 2009, residents helped the Townsend Library ceremonially move two books from the old building to the new.

Tim Rollo and his band energized a past year’s Republican Autumn Fling.