Gateway to Cape Cod.
Our Town. Our Voice.
Manomett 1627
Incorporated April 2, 1884
Every car, every truck and every train onto the Cape crosses Bourne. We’re the Republicans of the town that holds both bridges — recruiting, promoting and electing leaders who will keep Bourne safe, affordable and governed by the people who live here.
Trivia Match America
Not your typical trivia night. Fun, friends, prizes and patriotic questions — led by our friends from the Yarmouth RTC. Bring a team or come make one.
- WhenThursday, November 12, 2026
Doors 6:00 PM · Trivia starts 6:30 PM - WhereMonument Beach Sportsman Club
199 MacArthur Blvd, Bourne - Tickets$25 per person — includes pizza. Three rounds, all with prizes; an extra match card is available at the door.
- PayCash, or checks payable to Bourne RTC, at the door.
Republican Rally: Onward to Victory
State Representative Steven Xiarhos and the Sandwich, Bourne and Barnstable Republican Town Committees invite you to meet the candidates five days before the election. Food will be served. Open to all — bring a friend.
5:30 – 7:30 PM · Sandwich Taverna
290 Route 130, Forestdale
Meet Tyler Macallister (Congress), David Vieira (State Representative), Kari MacRae (State Senate) and Adam Hogue (Barnstable County Commissioner).
The 3rd Annual BRTC Canal Cruise
Republicans from across Cape Cod and the Canal region came aboard for our summer fundraiser on the Cape Cod Canal — music, food, and neighbors from a dozen towns in the same room. Thank you to everyone who sailed with us.
Bourne’s first settlers came here to trade, and its townspeople left Sandwich to govern themselves. We’re fighting to keep Bourne a place where the people — not the bureaucracy — still decide.
Country & Heritage
A strong sense of pride in our country and our heritage, and America’s enduring role as leader of the free world.
Government Closest to the People
Government “of, by, and for the people” that minimizes its intervention in citizens’ lives — promoting individual responsibility, initiative, and free enterprise.
Family, Character & Integrity
The strengthening and defense of the family, and government grounded in good character and personal integrity.
Read our full Mission, Vision, and the Republican Oath that guides the committee.
We are the Bourne Republican Town Committee. Our members come from every village in town — Buzzards Bay, Sagamore, Sagamore Beach, Bournedale, Pocasset, Cataumet, Monument Beach and Gray Gables — and from every walk of life, united in our commitment to the Constitution and to electing Republican candidates for local, county, state and national office. All Republicans and Independents are welcome. Upcoming events are listed above and on the network calendar. Want to know what’s happening in Town government? See our Town Meetings page.
The seal of the Town of Bourne carries two dates: Manomett 1627, and Incorporated April 2nd, 1884.
— In 1627 Plymouth Colony opened its first trading post at Aptucxet, on the Manomet River, where Dutch traders from New Amsterdam sailed in to do business. Two and a half centuries later the villages of western Sandwich voted to leave it and run their own affairs by their own town meeting. Commerce and self-government: that is the whole story of Bourne, and it still is.
Photographs: Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge and Aptucxet Trading Post replica by 4300streetcar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Canal cruise photographs courtesy of the Yarmouth RTC.