Middlesex County
Acton
A well-staffed center with a dense mix of talks, arts, music, technology help and discussion-based programs.
Read the Acton reportLocal aging services, clearly reported
What does your town provide older residents?
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TownLines currently covers two Massachusetts communities. The same evidence-based format is used for each.
Franklin County
Greenfield
A smaller municipal budget supplemented by grants, activity revenue, donations and outside cultural support.
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Budgets show only part of the picture.
Staff can organize, coordinate and deliver programming, even when a budget does not label those costs as “programming.” TownLines reports what public records identify, describes what residents are offered, and says plainly when the available documents do not reveal who paid for an individual activity.