City/Town Hall Hours

Note to Councilor Ted DeSalvatore: You can use this information if you want, and you don't even have to give us credit. We're here for you.

We did some quick research of City and Town halls throughout the region, checking their hours. Of course, Fitchburg officials are considering making the monumental change to actually keeping some offices open until 6:30 once a week.

We really like Councilor Dean Tran's on-line option. Mrs. Save Fitchburg reminded us this week that Worcester City Hall can turn around an on-line birth certificate request in two days. In the perfect world, Fitchburg should have both on-line options and evening hours, at least once in a while.

According to our research, Fitchburg is currently in the minority when it comes to not having evening hours. Simply, if Townsend can do it with a staff that most certainly is smaller than Fitchburg's, why can't Fitchburg?

So, here you go. Who's open when (in some case, office hours vary by department. All these hours are for the Clerk's Office, which is the department most used by residents on a regular basis):

Fitchburg
8:30-4:30, Monday-Friday

Leominster
8:30-4, Monday-Wednesday, Friday
8:30-5:30, Thursday

Lancaster
9-6, Monday
9-4, Tuesday-Friday

Lunenburg
8-4, Monday and Thursday
8-6:30, Tuesday
8-1 Wednesday
Closed Friday

Townsend
9-4, Monday, Wednesday-Friday
9-8, Tuesday
9-noon, first and third Saturdays of each month (Wow.)

Princeton
8-7, Monday
8-3:30, Tuesday and Wednesday
8-noon, Thursday
Closed Friday

Westminster
8-4:30, Monday-Thursday
8-1, Friday
Evenings M-Th by appointment only

Gardner
8-4:30, Monday-Thursday
8-4, Friday