Editing Whitinsville, Massachusetts (section)

==Government==
[[File:Northbridge Town Hall entrance, Whitinsville Massachusetts.jpg|thumb|left|upright=.6|Northbridge Memorial Town Hall]]
Whitinsville is a village within the town of Northbridge. New England towns, like Northbridge, administer the entire geography within their boundaries and function like a city and a county government rolled into one. The county government is weak or non-existent in the southern New England states. Worcester County exists today only as a historical area, with an elected County [[Sheriff]], an elected county registrar of deeds, and a correctional and court system, which are now administered by the [[Commonwealth of Massachusetts]], and its Office of Public Safety. County commissioners were last elected in 1999, and local roads are now administered either by the towns or the state.

The Northbridge Town Hall is located at 7 Main Street in Whitinsville, the largest village in the town. It was built in 1876,<ref>{{cite web |title=Walking Tour of whitinsville, MA |url=https://blackstoneheritagecorridor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Whittinsville-Walking-Tour2020.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722020531/https://blackstoneheritagecorridor.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Whittinsville-Walking-Tour2020.pdf |archive-date=July 22, 2020 |url-status=live |website=Blackstone Heritage Corridor |access-date=July 21, 2020 |page=4}}</ref> and from 1876 to 1913 it served as the public library.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHITINSVILLE SOCIAL LIBRARY |url=http://www.northbridgehistoricalsociety.com/library.html |website=Northbridge Historical Society |access-date=July 21, 2020}}</ref> The Town Hall was extensively renovated in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Town Hall -Restoration Project |url=https://www.northbridgemass.org/community-planning-development/pages/town-hall-restoration-project |website=Northbridge, Massachusetts |publisher=Town of Northbridge, Massachusetts |access-date=July 21, 2020}}</ref>

Northbridge is organized and administered as a town under Massachusetts law. The [[Board of Selectmen]] exercises executive functions, while the annual Town Meeting functions like a city council. Police, public works, the board of health, fire department and schools are part of the town government.