The word 'townwide' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means covering or affecting the entire town. It is typically used to describe something that is happening or applicable in all parts of a town. Example: The townwide celebration for Independence Day included a parade, fireworks display, and live music in the town square. In this sentence, 'townwide' is used to describe the celebration as taking place in all parts of the town.
He and his family had just moved there, he said, "and we weren't aware" of the popularity of the fireworks that cap the annual townwide celebration, to take place July 1 to 3 this year.
When news of the cancer cluster leaked in 1996, there was the predictable townwide panic, including a run on bottled water supplies.
To mark the occasion residents line the street and later gather in Shafer Park, the local ball field, for a townwide party.
In May, the zoning plans that the council signed off on to enable the project will come up for a townwide vote.
They are the holdouts after a townwide exodus, prompted by concerns over the fat and ferocious Mississippi River, which runs just on the other side of the lake.
To say it was a townwide crusade is not an overstatement.
In Newtown, the first selectwoman, E. Patricia Llodra, said last week that the town would not hold a townwide event on the anniversary of the shootings.
There are bitter complaints now about local officials who kept roads from being cleared without permission, or town hall's decision to forbid any building in the tsunami-destroyed areas until a townwide reconstruction plan is in place.
Others, like Greenburgh, are also exploring costly townwide revaluations — a move that many towns have not made in a half-century or more.
Early on, residents were split in their support for the master plan; in a townwide referendum in 2003, they narrowly voted it down.
Panicked parents and bereft son fly home, and an orchestrated townwide search ensues, in harsh winter conditions, across woods and busy roads.
