Know what your town is doing.

Towncrier is where your town posts what it is doing — board meetings, public hearings, road closures, bids, elections and legal notices — and where you can actually find them.

Work for a municipality? See how Towncrier works for your office

Towncrier feed showing four notices from the Village of Example: a public hearing on a proposed sidewalk district, a request for bids on winter sand and salt, a street closed for paving, and a village board meeting.
Demo data: the fictional Village of Example.

For residents

Follow your town and Towncrier tells you when it posts something.

Notices are never sent overnight. Something published late in the evening reaches you the following morning, deliberately.

You do not sign up, and there is nothing to sign in to.

For municipalities

You post a notice in about ninety seconds. Residents find it by search, on your town’s page, or as a notification if they follow you.

Notices go where nobody looks

Municipal notices are legally required to be published, but they are usually published somewhere nobody looks: a newspaper of record, a bulletin board in a hallway that is open Tuesdays, a PDF three clicks deep on a website that was last redesigned in 2016. People miss hearings about their own street.

What you get

  • Every notice your town publishes, in one place
  • A notification when something new is posted, never overnight
  • Mute the categories you do not care about, keep the ones you do
  • Meeting dates, hearing times and locations, in your town’s own time zone
  • A town’s full record, including notices that have already passed
A public hearing notice from the Village of Example in Towncrier: its category, its title, when it was published, where the hearing is held, and the text of the notice.
Demo data: the fictional Village of Example.
Towncrier settings for the Village of Example: a button to turn on notifications, a switch for each of the ten notice categories, and a control to delete everything on this device.
Demo data: the fictional Village of Example.

What towns post

Board meetings, public hearings, road closures, bids, elections and legal notices — from the town that issued them.

  • Meetings
  • Public hearings
  • Legal notices
  • Roads
  • Services
  • Bids & RFPs
  • Elections
  • Events
  • Announcements
  • Jobs

There is deliberately no emergency category. Read the FAQ

Why you can trust what you read

Every notice is published by the municipality named on it

A notice appears because a member of that municipality’s own staff signed in and published it. We do not write notices, edit them, or decide what a town publishes.

A town only appears after it asks to and proves it can

Towncrier adds one municipality at a time. We verify that the municipality is a real government body and that the request comes from inside it before anything is published.

A count, and never a list

A town can see how many devices opened a notice. It cannot see which devices, it cannot see who follows it, and it cannot see what any individual has read.

For residents

Get the app

Follow your town and Towncrier tells you when it posts something.

Find your town

For municipalities

Tell us about your municipality

We talk it through, and you get a quote and an invoice. This goes to a person, not a queue.