Editing Georgetown, Massachusetts (section)

==Government==
[[Image:Georgetown Town Hall.JPG|thumb|right|Town offices]]
Georgetown employs the [[open town meeting]] form of government, and is led by a [[board of selectmen]] and a town administrator.  The current board of selectmen consist of Amy Smith (Chair), Douglas Dawes, Daryle J. LaMonica, Rachel Bancroft, and Robert Hoover (Clerk).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.georgetownma.gov/board-selectmen|title=Board of Selectmen &#124; Georgetown MA|publisher=www.georgetownma.gov}}</ref>  Georgetown has its own police department, two fire stations (Central Station in downtown and Erie Station in the Northern sector of town), a post office, library, electric department and highway department.  The nearest hospitals to the town are in Haverhill, Newburyport and Beverly.

On the state level, Georgetown is under the jurisdiction of the Central District Court of Essex County, located in Haverhill.  It is patrolled by the Newbury barracks of Troop A of the [[Massachusetts State Police]].  In state government, Georgetown is part of the Second and Eighteenth Essex Districts in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], and is part of the First Essex and Middlesex District in the [[Massachusetts Senate]].  On the national level, Georgetown is in [[Massachusetts's 6th congressional district]], and has been represented since 2015 by [[Seth Moulton]] (D).  In the [[United States Senate]], Massachusetts's senior senator, elected in 2012, is [[Elizabeth Warren]] (D), and its junior senator, elected in 2013, is [[Edward Markey]] (D).