Sentences with phrase «abandoned town of»

The abandoned town of Anyox burned down in 1942 and started a forest fire that cleared out much of the damaged trees over a very large area.

Alone in the Dark: Illumination ™ brings you to the abandoned town of Lorwich, Virginia.

The game centers around a paranormal investigator named Paul Prospero that travels to the now abandoned town of Red Creek Valley after receiving a letter from young Ethan Carter, who has gone missing.

From the lonely remains of the Santa Maria ship wreck, to the spooky abandoned town of Curral Velho, or the colourful former capital Rabil, tours to the cultural sites of Boa Vista are easily arranged from Sal Rei.

Radha Mitchell, an actress who deserves better parts than this, plays Rose, who finds herself stranded in the abandoned town of Silent Hill, West Virginia, searching for her lost daughter.

Not exact matches

While some of these imitations could be mistaken for the real thing, others are abandoned ghost towns or remain half - finished construction projects.

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters)- Seven years after being devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, L'Aquila's abandoned city center is a stark reminder of the struggle facing Italian towns hit by a quake last week.

But the citizens of Asbestos can call it money saved on highway signage and stationery by not having to change their town's name to the equally descriptive Abandoned Lot Next to Drummondville.

The town of Prattville still exists today, but many of the old factories and mills in the area are abandoned and full of rusty, silent machinery.

Our hypotheses are that Uppards and Goose Island will be lost before 2100, and that, without human intervention, the Town of Tangier will have to be abandoned prior to 2100.

Ghost towns and abandoned plots now bear the scars of the downturn, Bloomberg's Dan Murtaugh and photographer Max Burkhalter report.

There is only one way it could not be, and that is if you decide that it teaches that nihilism is the truth, revealed here by the pointless failure of Davis's career, so that his having to obtain abortions for women he impregnated is just another absurd, annoying, and energy - sapping aspect of that, his irrational guilt instincts causing him to have to scrounge for money, and so that his learning that one of these abortions didn't occur is just another sort of misfortune, saddling him with sentiments that he will have no way to really act upon (it is unlikely the that the mother of the child wants to see him), and probably causing him to draw some kind of superstitious karmic connection between a random coincidence of having hit a cat that looks just like one he abandoned, and his driving by the town his child may be living in.

In a borrowed «76 AMC Hornet, holding a fast - food chicken sandwich in one hand and balancing a cup of ice water in the other, I drive eight miles north from this Oregon university town to an abandoned air force base which now houses a modest, little - known alcohol treatment Center for American Indians.

Then, because he does not want to return to Cape Town, and because he wishes to live apart from the world of history and war, he plants a few pumpkin and melon seeds, found in an abandoned farmhouse, and so begins his life as a cultivator.

In the second place, it was won by a car that was put together in what VPs at the big glamour places probably would refer to as a seemingly abandoned warehouse on the outskirts of town, the particular town being London.

His parents abandoned him at age four in the Vermont town of Danville, and thereafter Ron Sr. bounced from farm to farm, from family to family, from Lyndonville, Vt., to St. Johnsbury, Vt., to Coventry, Conn..

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Three dilapidated buildings sit on a vacant lumber yard in the Town of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward WehrhTown of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward Wehrhtown Councilman Edward Wehrheim.

The site is in the old abandoned troopers barrack on Town of Boston property connected to the town's playground, tennis court and sports fieTown of Boston property connected to the town's playground, tennis court and sports fietown's playground, tennis court and sports fields.

York urged the Town Board to consider and submit a wish list of items, which can be funded by the state Division of Cemeteries to assist municipalities, which are legally required to take over abandoned cemeteries.

The agreement between the New York Environmental Protection and Spill Compensation Fund, or Oil Spill Fund, Dutchess County and the Town of Hyde Park is to convert an abandoned gas station on Route 9G in the town to green spTown of Hyde Park is to convert an abandoned gas station on Route 9G in the town to green sptown to green space.

Replete with boarded - up windows and junk cars in the yard, the long - abandoned house was once the home of former town supervisor (1978 - 87) Charlie Rider.

Marbletown: Town Supervisor Mike Warren is pitching a 300 - acre abandoned farm off Route 209 north of Stone Ridge.

The Zombie Remediation and Prevention grants allow cities and towns across the state to maximize the impact of the law and to partner with the state in addressing the blight of abandoned properties.

Critic says responses are evasive BY ROBERT KNIGHT CITY EDITOR ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES Two Tappan Residents are questioning Orangetown officials about the existence of old sewer lines at an abandoned Army base on Western Highway, and are not satisfied with answers the town has given them so far, claiming the responses are more mystifying than -LSB-...]

NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced grant awards totaling $ 12.6 million to help 76 cities, towns, and villages across the state address the problem of vacant properties and so - called «zombie homes» — vacant and abandoned homes that are not maintained during a prolonged foreclosure proceeding.

Marbletown and Rosendale effected a consolidation of sorts in taking over an abandoned grade school building in Cottekill for town offices for both townships.

Hosler established the At - Risk Property Task Force in 2016 to address the large number of vacant, abandoned and zombie properties in the town.

The Youth Chief of the town, Nana Labuer Kwabena said «President John Mahama should not set his foot in the area to campaign since the road has been abandoned».

Senator Timothy Kennedy says Bank of America owns 28 blighted homes that are sitting abandoned and vacant in the Town of Cheektowaga alone.

I'd love to see Ulster County get serious about tourism and make a real effort (particularly in the Town of Rochester) to get our landscape «tourist friendly» — clean up abandoned buildings, make absentee land owners clean up their property and make us LOOK LIKE WE ARE READY FOR BUSINESS.

The 6 - inch skeleton, nicknamed Ata, was discovered more than a decade ago in an abandoned town in the Atacama Desert of Chile.

Neighboring towns like Hillwell and Quendale weren't similarly abandoned, Bigelow says, which suggests that the effects of climate change can vary widely even among places just a few kilometers away from one another — something modern climate modelers should consider, he says.

In 1962 residents of this small mining town burned trash in an abandoned strip mine used as a dump near the Odd Fellows Cemetery, not realizing that the mine had not been properly sealed.

Moreover, radioactive contamination has spread to a 30 - kilometer radius of the stricken plant, including to towns even farther afield, such as Iitate, which is so contaminated that it will have to be abandoned or its soil scooped up and entirely replaced.

In the Croatian town of Osijek, 1000 tonnes of chemicals have been abandoned in a burnt - out detergents and cosmetics factory.

The towns listed on these sites vary from clusters of abandoned buildings to simple stone markers indicating that a town once thrived on a now - vacant spot.

A mysterious mummy that was found in an abandoned mining town in the Atacama Desert of Chile looked like an alien skeleton.

When prairie dogs relocate, they take over abandoned holes or dig new holes at the edge of the town.

Known as the Sands of Hell, Namibia Skeleton Coast National Park houses some incredible shipwrecks and a Ghost Town formerly known as Kolmanskop, which was founded in the early 1900s by a large German population when diamonds were found in the desert but abandoned 40 years later.

While on our road trip to Mineral de Pozos, we got to visit some of the town's famous abandoned mines.

They are awakened by church organist Susan Crowell (Dorinda Clifton) and her mother (Mary Newton), who explain that both church and town were abandoned after a series of mysterious killings.

Or, rather, there is oil under an abandoned church in the ghost town of Coltsville.

Adele Haenal and Kevin Azais both give strong performances, and the chemistry is certainly present on screen, while the flick's bizarrely charming score and array of beautiful shots create definite impact; one of the film's final scenes, that takes place in an abandoned town, surprised me in its method of creating danger.

A group of disparate strangers including a blind genius and a druggie who ripped off his ecstasy dealer converges on a small, abandoned town where they are promptly slaughtered one at a time by a grotesque and extremely foul - smelling creature.

Even when the film gears up for one of its many tonal shifts, from its Old Boy-esque hallway action set - piece in a lavish upmarket Georgian town house, to its intense abandoned warehouse finale with The Businessman (William Houston)-- who seemed to be channelling the foreboding gunslinger in Westworld, ensures the film has a wonderfully rich and engaging backdrop throughout.

The details of Helen's pre-Australia life are the stuff of epics: orphaned at 6; abandoned at age 9 by an indifferent uncle; forced to live for years on the streets of her small Polish town (now part of the Ukraine); shipped at 16 to a Russian gulag to work as a slave laborer after Stalin and Hitler divvy up Poland; twice compelled to trek endless miles through Russian territory, ending up first in Uzbekistan and then in Persia; displaced to a refugee camp in Rhodesia, where she becomes pregnant — by an Italian soldier — with Sophia; finally arriving in Australia, where she's forced to temporarily place her daughrer in an orphanage.

The old mining town is mostly abandoned except for a brash group of misfits, chief among them Gilly (James Ransone), the troublemaking son of the town's Marshal (John Travolta).

Learning he has an infant son in the city from a previous passing - through, Glanton opts to abandon his travelling act and stay in town, mindful of the effect not having a father had on him.

The once - popular mining town is nearly abandoned and controlled by a brash group of misfits, chief among them Gilly (James Ransone, Sinister, Sinister 2), the troublemaking son of the town's Marshal (John Travolta).