Your notices, where residents will actually see them.
You are required to publish your meetings, hearings, road closures and bids. You do, and you pay for it — in a newspaper almost nobody in town still reads. Towncrier is the part that was missing: one place residents can search, on the phone they already carry.
The requirement is met. The purpose isn’t.
Publication rules were written when the newspaper was how a town reached everyone. That stopped being true a long time ago and nothing replaced it. The notice runs, the invoice is paid, the file is clean — and the first a resident hears about the rezoning is when the survey stakes go in.
How it works
- You tell us about your municipality using the inquiry form.
- We talk it through, and you get a quote and an invoice.
- Once that’s settled we switch your account on and show you around.
- 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.
What your office gets
Post from a phone or a computer
Post from a phone or from the portal on a computer, with a tamper-evident record of everything published.
No public sign-up
Staff accounts are issued by your own municipality; there is no public sign-up. That is by design: an account can publish legal notices in a government’s name.
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.
Ten fixed categories
Every notice goes in one of ten categories. Residents filter and mute by category, so a category means the same thing in every town.
- Meetings
- Public hearings
- Legal notices
- Roads
- Services
- Bids & RFPs
- Elections
- Events
- Announcements
- Jobs
What it will not do
Towncrier supplements legally required publication. It does not replace it. Keep publishing exactly as your statute requires. Nothing here satisfies a statutory duty, and a product that told you otherwise would be putting your hearings at risk of challenge. Every notice names the publication the legal version ran in.
Towncrier is not an emergency notification system. There is deliberately no emergency category. Keep your county alert service for life safety — that is what it is built and contracted for.
Tell us about your municipality
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