During September the town holds the Abergavenny Food Festival.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

* 1811 – In the second day of fighting at the Peninsular War Battle of Fuentes de Onoro the French army, under Marshall Massena, drive in the Duke of Wellington's overextended right flank, but French frontal assaults fail to take the town of Fuentes de Onoro and the Anglo-Portuguese army holds the field at the end of the day.

* February 21 – 26 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring ; the force is defeated ( and Thurot killed ) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on February 28.

The town also holds the Rockfield Country Music Festival and the Monmouth Women's Festival each year.

* In the second season of the HBO show True Blood the town falls under the spell of a Maenad, who holds regular Bacchanalia with the possessed townspeople.

Southwold Museum holds a number of exhibits focussed on the local and natural history of the town.

* Since 2004 the Colombian town of Sutamarchán holds a similar event on 15 June when a surplus of tomatoes is harvested.

The town of Ringwood is a well known producer of watermelons in the region and holds a Watermelon Festival annually.

After WWII Plon was chosen as the site for King Alfred School, a remarkable secondary school for British Forces children under the inspired, maverick headmastership of Freddie Spencer Chapman with his hand-picked staff and on the site of what is now the little-changed non-commissioned officer school, and as such the town holds a place of affection with many former pupils across the world and the declining number of surviving teachers and their families.

As the highest European mountain west of Russia, Mont Blanc holds a special allure for mountain climbers, and Mark Twight described the town as " the death-sport capital of the world " because it is a base for almost all types of outdoor activity, especially their more extreme variants, such as ice climbing, rock climbing, extreme skiing, paragliding, rafting, and canyoning.

Five Points holds the distinction of being the first town of its size to receive electricity from Alabama Power in 1925.

Every year in April, Geneva holds a River Festival, which brings in hundreds of people from all over the country to the small town.

Every June, the town of Stevenson holds the annual Depot Days celebration.

The town holds an annual sausage festival to celebrate the industry.

Cold Bay holds the record for most overcast town in America

One of the major streets of Kingman is named " Andy Devine Avenue " and the town holds the annual " Andy Devine Days ".

The town holds an annual Salute to Route 66 Parade on the third weekend in September on Huntington Drive, which is part of the Historic U. S. Route 66.

Fairfax is the only town that holds a Green Party majority in the town council in America.

Patterson is known as the " Apricot Capital of the World "; the town holds an annual Apricot Fiesta to celebrate with many drinks, food, desserts and games.

The origin of the town name excites considerable speculation, but conventional wisdom holds that Ellijay is an Anglicized form of a Cherokee word, perhaps meaning " place of green things " or " many waters.

The town holds the distinction of the having the highest percentage of people with Swiss ancestry, followed by nearby Berne, Indiana, according to the 2000 U. S. Census.

Mulberry holds a town festival, Mulberry Fest, annually on the first Saturday in June.

The town of Saint Joe holds an annual Pickle Festival in honor of the Pickle industry local to the town.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

It is developing as an annual autumn event in his native town of Legnago where a theater has been renamed in his honor.

The town of Al-Joura was a place of annual festivities ( 4 days in all ) when people of many faiths gathered and bathed in a natural spring.

Since 2011 the town has also been host to the annual Charlie Chaplin Comedy Film Festival, which was founded to celebrate Chaplin's legacy and to showcase new comic talent.

At the first Town Meeting following the annual town election he is to appoint, subject to Town Meeting's confirmation, a Deputy Moderator from the elected Members.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

The Keystone Kops re-emerge every year in the town of Cedar Springs, Michigan during their Red Flannel Festival, and also in Sitka, Alaska during the annual Alaska Day festival.

Keszthely is the site of the Festetics Palace and Balatonfüred is a historical bathing town which hosts the annual Anna Ball.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

The interest in the first Boat Race and subsequent matches led the town of Henley-on-Thames to begin hosting an annual regatta in 1839.

The small town of Shady Cove, Oregon is home to the annual Spam Parade and Festival, with the city allocating $ 1500 for it.

Fairs have been held by royal charter since 1330 and an annual horse fair is still held on the edge of the town.

He has been instrumental in establishing the annual Umbria Film Festival, held in the nearby hill town of Montone.

There, the Lutheran majority barred the Catholic residents of the Swabian town from holding an annual Markus procession, which provoked a riot.

* 2009: In September 2009, the American Institute for Economic Research ranked Corvallis as the 7th best college town under 250, 000 people in their annual College Destinations Index.

In December 2001, the town responded to complaints from anonymous citizens by banning Santa Claus from the annual holiday parade.

The town hosts the annual Samba festival every summer, where Samba bands from around the world converge on the town for a week of drumming and parades.

The town has also created space-themed murals and signs, and hosts an annual community-wide Star Trek convention known as VulCON: Spock Days / Galaxyfest.

* The Grand Place is the centre of the historic town and the stage for the annual mock-battle of the Lumeçon.

The town has its own arts centre and plays host to the annual Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival.

Each town is governed by a board of selectmen elected by town voters, along with annual and periodic town meetings.