town news

Community current events

Town news refers to local information and happenings within a community—events, announcements, gossip, and matters of public interest circulating among residents.

The phrase often appears in newspaper names and community bulletins.

It can also mean gossip or common knowledge within a locality: By noon it was town news that the mayor had resigned.

Related

reporter · community · weekly · gazette · broadcast · update · mayor · scandal · police blotter · announcement · public notice · editorial · letters to the editor · human interest · press · press release · neighborhood · council

Categories
Opposites
geographic scope

town newsglobal affairs

Worldwide political and diplomatic matters

world news · national news · foreign affairs · international affairs · regional news

public vs. private information

town newsconfidential information

Private data requiring discretion

classified information

subject matter focus

town newsglobal affairs

Worldwide political and diplomatic matters

geopolitics · international diplomacy · macroeconomics · world politics · foreign policy

Family

town, news, towns, township, townships, townsman, townsmen, townspeople, townsfolk

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G