Sentences with phrase «groton town mayor»

And this is coming from a Baby Boomer who ran for town mayor.»

A state senator, NYC council member, suburban small - town mayor and Deputy Mayor, and Queens and Bronx GOP leaders were arrested today by the FBI in a political bribery scandal that covers the spectrum of political corruption in New York.

Four years ago Boughton was on his way to the top of the ticket, but teamed up with Heather Somers, a former Groton town mayor and now a state senator, to combine donations and reach the public financing threshold.

Kay Swinburne, a newcomer to the European Parliament, is a county councillor in Hereford where she was responsible for cross-border health issues, and is also a former town mayor.

Ms. Scozzafava, a state assemblywoman and former small - town mayor, was nominated to run in District 23 by Republican county leaders who quickly found their choice second - guessed by the party's conservative wing.

«So we can go back to local communities, elect more village mayors, town mayors, town council members, school board members, and build from there.»

Only one guy (David, a small town mayor and a professional lobbyist for a trade association) is in a relationship.

Is it the town mayor, or the blacksmith, or... just who is it?).

His pet peeve is the city administration's plan to rename Confederate Square after the pompous, mildly corrupt town mayor (Thurston Hall).

He becomes the prosperous town mayor, but will never be a totally free man, as he's kept under watch by Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe).

Johnny Rose (Eugene Levy) and Stevie (Emily Hampshire) are now partners in the motel where the Roses live in two adjacent rooms; town mayor Roland Schitt (the divine Chris Elliott), once vaguely threatening, has attached himself to the motel as a kind of man - of - no - work.

Here, they mess with a trio of Mounties and other cardboard Canadian characters including Guy Le Franc, a cheesy border - town mayor and former hockey player played by Rob Lowe.

It is a hell of a plight, after all, as originally sketched in Victor Hugo's 1,400 - page historical novel: Sentenced to 19 years in jail for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister's family, the stolid, pious Valjean breaks parole upon his release and goes on to become a respectable small - town mayor under an assumed name.

In the Western's heyday, The Salvation would have been so unexceptional as to seem beneath notice; today, it's a thoroughly entertaining throwback, moving at a brisk clip and giving its impressive cast (which also includes Jonathan Pryce as the town mayor / undertaker and Douglas Henshall as the cowardly sheriff) the opportunity to embody cherished archetypes.

The first brief scene was meant to precede the discovery of a new dead kid, but the extreme wide photography rendered the key visual a mere dot in the field; and the second scene involves local police chief Murphy with the town mayor at a grocery shop.

We'd be foolish not to give some sort of shout out to other terrific scenes throughout the year, like the hilarious funeral sequence in Li» l Quinquin, which had us doubled over from laughter; both the border crossing and night vision sequences in Sicario; the ending of Carol, which should get an emotional response out of even the coldest souls; the opening long take in Buzzard, a painfully funny experience much like Entertainment; the bonkers final act of Jauja; a scorching scene from The Fool where the town mayor lays into her corrupt staff; everything that happens at Mamie Claire's house in Mistress America; the intense argument between Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bissett in Welcome to New York; the tightrope sequence in The Walk, and much, much more.

The convict known as 24601 escapes and makes a respectable life for himself as a small - town mayor.

In what ways does the character of the town mayor allow the moviemakers to poke fun at political figures?

The game offers both a single - play mode, in which players mine a single plot of land, as well as a campaign, in which the player competes against three other oil industrialists to raise the money to become town mayor.

Freshly minted as Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the 3DS title places players in the role of the town mayor.

As town mayor, what kind of taxes and sanctions can I levy on that thieving bastard Tom Nook?

Create and administer town budgets, implement strategic revitalization plans, carry out plans and polices implemented by town mayor and council, advises municipalities on a regular basis of current problems, opportunities and trends.

Not exact matches

Fikret Abdic was recently elected mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, having served time for setting up prison camps during the war that housed 5,000 prisoners, more than 300 of whom were killed.

Asked if his participation in last month's event was suitable, Vladimir Gak, a senior SNS official and mayor of the northern town of Indjija, repeatedly replied that Sljivancanin «is a free citizen of Serbia».

The research brought him to a town with a mayor and a basketball player who took its residents off the power grid, the founder of an online network which allows medical patients to swap treatment stories and share knowledge and the maker of an engine that runs on liquid air made from a lawn mower and a can of antifreeze.

He offered by way of example a string of headlines that were posted alongside news from verified sources on the wall of his Louisiana home town's mayor: Hillary Clinton Calling for Civil War If Trump Is Elected.

The locals saw us doing this and started coming to us with all kinds of electricity issues, work issues, transportation issues — I spent the majority of my first deployment acting essentially as the mayor of a small town.

«We called it «running for mayor» in all the small towns.»

Eataly just came to town, Whole Foods came to town, we just met with the mayor who is super behind everything that we're doing.

«The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation's top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows,» the billionaire and former three - term mayor of New York wrote ahead of Trudeau's arrival for town - hall event on live television.

They worked jointly with the Office of the First Lady of Puerto Rico, who Artaega said «alerted the mayors of the towns we were visiting, so they in turn spread the word in the town.»

«Hysteria is starting to spread,» Jose Sanchez Gonzalez, mayor of Manati, a town on the North shore, told the Associated Press.

Not to take questions at a town hall like he did in other provinces mind you, but to meet with navy personnel at CFB Esquimalt for photo ops, then to take a 30 minute meeting with our mayor, Lisa Helps.

A municipal funding shortage and delayed environmental assessments by the province, says James Young, town councilor and former mayor.

With the addition of more doctors, nurses, EMTs, paramedics and logistics personnel, Heart to Heart's medical teams have been able to push westward through the mountains, visiting numerous towns, meeting with hospital administrators, mayors, and other officials, and finding areas of need in which HHI can assist.

I am the first in line to step up to the plate to help someone in need (a friend told me about a homeless man living under bridge in a small town of 1500... everyone knew he was there; police, mayor and other community members, though NO one did a thing, I personaly went bought a sleeping bag and 100.00 worth of food, storage bags and toiletries and whatever I thought he may need and this is the first time brought up.)

Mia Love is our mayor but I see signs of her being to much to the right of developers in this growing town.

If I give you the keys to my pickup, does that implky that you're now mayor of my town and have your pick of which woemn you can sleep with?

The mayor of a small town near the epicenter says that while they haven't reported deaths, they're also without power and can't make any definitive determinations yet.

I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

I would not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.

She is mayor of a new yuppie town (a little more than a decade old) and population less than 20,000.

The attraction of the town, said its mayor, was «the ability to live in a suburban community and yet have... your own island.

To the north of Baghdad, in Diyala province, at least 14 people were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near a procession of Shiite pilgrims in Khalis, according to the town's mayor.

«We often comment that the theater managers in smaller towns where we operate often know the families in the city better than the mayor.

Yvonne Fournier, mayor of the town of Hane on the island of Ua Huka and proud proprietor of an eponymously named restaurant, served - up a more manageable umu for a smaller contingent (about 200) of select patrons.

When the Baltimore Ravens left town real quick for some cigarettes, milk, and a couple Lombardi trophies, the city's mayor, Michael White, initiated a lawsuit forcing the team name and franchise records to remain in Cleveland.

San Juan Bautista's mayor says there is «very little likelihood» of a Formula 1 race track being built near his town.

The bill would allow for the mayors from the various towns some park districts serve to appoint four additional members to their five - member boards.

Outraged, she urged the city council to ban the event in the exclusive town, which is famous for its arts community and Clint Eastwood, who was mayor from 1986 to 1988 and still has a home in the area.