Town Report

  • Town Reports are indexed by their acceptance at Town Meeting, which is always the first Monday in May (*Except during the Covid-19 Pandemic of 2020, when Town Meeting was held outside in September)
  • The 2013 Annual Town Report would be indexed as May 05, 2014.
  • To Search for Town Reports, select the Category/Board/Committee to be "Town Meeting"
  • You can also change the date options to expand or narrow your search.
  • You can change the way your results are displayed by using the "Sort by:" button. 
  • The Full Text Keyword search option was deprecated in 2017 and is no longer functioning.  
  • When you click "Search", your results will be displayed in a new tab or window. From the results page, you can "View" or "Save" individual documents or use the "Download all Files" link at the bottom of the results page to download an indexed .zip file.
  • More Search tips are below.

SEARCH TIPS

If you are having trouble finding an item using the site search, these tips might help you.

You can search on: 

  • Single word terms
  • Phrases (A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "hello dolly".)
To perform a single character search use the "?" symbol.
To perform a multiple character search use the "*" symbol.

EXAMPLE:

  • The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "text" or "test" you can use the search:
  • te?t
  • Multiple character wildcard searches looks for 0 or more characters. For example, to search for test, tests or tester, you can use the search:
  • test*
  • You can also use the wildcard searches in the middle of a term.
  • te*t
Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.

  • Boolean Operators (AND, NOT, OR)
Boolean operators (AND, "+", OR, NOT and "-") allow terms to be combined through logic operators. (Note: Boolean operators must be ALL CAPS).

OR
To search for documents that contain either "jakarta apache" or just "jakarta" use the query:
"jakarta apache" OR jakarta

AND
To search for documents that contain "jakarta apache" and "Apache Lucene" use the query:
"jakarta apache" AND "Apache Lucene"

+
To search for documents that must contain "jakarta" and may contain "lucene" use the query:
+jakarta lucene

NOT
To search for documents that contain "jakarta apache" but not "Apache Lucene" use the query:
"jakarta apache" NOT "Apache Lucene"

Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the following search will return no results:

NOT "jakarta apache"-
To search for documents that contain "jakarta apache" but not "Apache Lucene" use the query:
"jakarta apache" -"Apache Lucene"