Sentences with phrase «area residents said»

Area residents say they heard a flurry of shots overnight near the scene of a death investigation that started Tuesday morning.

Some Rochester - area residents say they were issued traffic and parking tickets from Nassau County, though they've never been here.

More than one - third of San Francisco area residents say they are prepared to move away, in part because affordable housing is so hard to find.

Not exact matches

As 1 World Trade Center starts to claim a place on the Lower Manhattan skyline, the area's retail scene is beginning to revive, with landlords raising rents in anticipation of thousands of new office workers, tourists and residents, commercial real estate experts said.

Let's get real about Silicon Valley for a minute: The cost of living in the area is, shall we say, brutal on the resident wallet.

As residents have poured out of rebel districts, including into areas under government control, the army has begun making arrests, Zughbi said.

Douglas County officials posted an update Thursday evening saying the fire is extinguished but asking residents in the evacuation area to stay away from their homes for at least another two hours.

'' [Bush's] big areas of focus have always been on education and refocusing people on opportunities, no matter what income bracket they are born into,» says Stan Veuger, resident economist for the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

The federal government has called on businesses, local and state governments, and residents of the tourist areas to help fund the program, and the rule of law and political institutions still need to be strengthened, said de la Madrid.

«Kijkduin will remain an attractive place for Pokémon hunters, but there will be less trouble for the residents and the damage to protected areas will be limited,» said the Hague in the statement.

Alton Sterling, the Baton Rouge man who was shot by police on July 5, had peddled CDs for years and law enforcement officers would have known he was not a threat if they were more familiar with the area, local residents said.

«Nobody should go to God with such darkness,» said a resident in the Acibadem area of Istanbul, where officials and newspapers said Karabekir shot dead a local administrator as he and a group of soldiers tried to seize a building.

The company said it's aiming for a metropolitan area of at least 1 million residents, opening up, theoretically, a few dozen cities in the U.S., from New York to Tucson, Ariz., and a handful more in Canada.

The metro areas and counties that scored high in the rankings started to make change some years ago to get their residents thinking more about healthy lifestyles: bike paths, community gardens and nutrition programs, Lynch said.

While the area is flooded with wealth, residents say they are more low key than people you might find in other neighborhoods favored by D.C. influentials, like Potomac.

«In terms of the percentage increase for [Universal] compared to other insurers, we can not speak to other insurers» situations but an important consideration is that [Universal] has continued to serve the residents of South Florida by consistently writing policies in that area,» Miller said in an email statement.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

«This is a precautionary measure for San Marcos residents who want to voluntarily leave low - lying areas and seek shelter,» said Mayor John Thomaides.

Despite the new options, some residents say the area still lags far behind most of Austin in business and shopping options.

«The pace of new retail development, including restaurants, will be very dynamic in the coming years as the underlying demographics of the South Shore area and East Austin change with 3,000 to 5,000 new residents in the projects already underway and planned in the near future,» Grayco Partners founder and President Jeff Gray said.

«Suspending services for Japan residents will allow us to better focus on our resources to improve in other geographical areas,» Kraken said in a statement to Bloomberg.

«The residents of all locations seem to be generally aware of the current economic conditions in their area, with the perceived «need» of landing Amazon higher amongst locations with unemployment rates above the national average,» said Sheridan from Elon's Love School of Business.

Detective Constable Paul Wigley has said: «These crimes are distasteful and upsetting to residents of these areas.

Yet two surveys of community residents in the three - county archdiocese area (one in 1972 and one in 1996) reveal a very stable Roman Catholic population and a stable proportion of Catholics who say they attended church.

«It also was a big deal for Paris,» he says, noting that he personally spent much of his time speaking to the residents and officials in the area.

Jeremy said, «Community is of utmost importance to me and I am proud to open a fun, community social gathering place that I believe area residents will enjoy.»

After seeing Houston multimillionaire Joel Osteen ripped apart on Twitter for a failure to open up his mega-church to displaced residents — a stance he eventually relented from after said ripping — it's comforting to see someone in the area with money do something with it to help the victims of Harvey without having to be screamed at first.

«For about 39 hours people in our area were subjected to noise that was disturbing,» said Richard Ward, president of the New Eastside Association of Residents.

«I was in an area where you can see a lot of seals, but they can be skittish,» the 32 - year - old Melrose resident said.

Trustee William Carlson, who lives on Parkside Circle, expressed numerous concerns about the proposed site, and said that he is worried about the well - being of residents living in that area who have invested «half their lives into their homes.»

The park, to be called West Side Park, will provide open space and recreation areas for a number of residents in newly developed areas in the village, officials said.

Responding to another resident's question about whether the dog park would increase the number of coyotes — estimated at six — frequenting the area in the morning, Connolly said, «My guess is the coyotes won't want to be near there.»

«There «s been 13 years of status quo in that area, and we have residents of the Glenview Park District there who are n`t too pleased «about the legal challenge, said Richard E. Johns, general superintendent of the Glenview parks.

George Boulet, chairman of the agency, said residents living along the shore have told him the muck is about a foot thick in some areas and spreading.

Residents in the area are still being advised to avoid the water and to keep their children and pets away from the tributary, he said.

The village, which requires developers to minimize their impact on residents, is bringing traffic and noise through residential areas, Smith said.

GURNEE — In its quest to be the best park district in the area, the Gurnee Park District is looking to its residents for planning help, officials said.

Residents of the west side will have a new recreation area to see them through the beginning of the next century, officials said.

A new band shell would offer residents improved lighting and sound and much - needed restrooms and concession areas, said John Muno, the district «s director of recreation.

The plan by the Park District, North Park University and area aldermen to convert the space into a $ 1.8 million regulation - size soccer field and eight - lane track threatens the quality of life in the densely populated neighborhood, residents said.

Lurie said she's working on organizing a week - long training session that would give interested Orland Park residents the skills they'd need to begin exploring area sites.

Nearby homeowner Warren Breslin said he had sent letters to 400 residents of the area and had gotten 162 responses, all but nine of them opposed to the park plans.

Park District director Jerry Handlon said the agency will immediately post no - cycling signs at the natural area's three entrances informing residents of the ordinance change, which formally will take effect Oct. 21.

Using flood - control funds, the county has proposed increasing the wetland areas at the park at the expense of lagoons and open space that residents say now are used for recreational purposes.

Schaumburg police Sgt. Ron Dutner said residents analyzing a printout of all police calls in the natural area found that the number of criminal incidents had risen about 30 percent during the last two years.

Wicker Park residents concede that their area is perceived by outsiders as having a high crime rate and gang - related problems, but they say that is n`t true.

About 35 armed military men and two officers were deployed Monday to the area to mount a search for residents said to have lynched Captain Maxwell Mahama.

Adebowale Akinsanya, said it was dangerous for residents to besiege the dry area as the flow of the river was still active beneath.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente said residents need to be aware of the health hazards posed by possible raw sewage in the water flooding many basements after touring flood damaged areas of Whitesboro.

When the woman who spoke about the problem said it was still a major issue near her building on 14th Street and Avenue B, Hayduk said he'd increase patrols in that area and urged residents to report any problems.