Sentences with phrase «mill town of»

As the mayor of the mill town of Springfield, Oregon, told the New York Times shortly after logging restrictions came into effect to protect the spotted owl, «It wasn't blind, dumb luck that helped us land Sony; the company wanted a pristine place on the river.»

For years, photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, left, has been chronicling working - class life in the steel mill town of Braddock, Pa..

The cottages are just 12 kilometres from the historically rich timber mill town of Nannup, known for its timber craftsmen, quaint shops, antiques and the newly opened Mythic Maze with its Tearooms and Gallery.

In the late 1990s the forgotten mill town of North Adams became a haven for technology companies and was infused with new life.

Besides, it seemed a very French thing to do, taking into consideration the novel takes place in northern Rhode Island's fictitious French - Canadian mill town of Beauchemins.

It, too, began with a journey: this one when we were just twenty - one, to interview for teaching jobs in the remote mill town of Orleans, in the northern Green Mountains just south of the Canadian border, where we planned to teach for a year or two, save some money, and then move on to graduate school.

When I was a younger education reporter in the old mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the big day came when the state released scores on its school accountability tests.

The steel mill town of Braddock, Pennsylvania was once thriving, but is now on life support... just like the father of Rodney and Russell Baze.

The worst chlorine gas accident in the country occurred in 2005, when 18 freight train cars derailed and released 120,000 pounds of chlorine gas in the mill town of Graniteville, S.C. Nine people were killed and at least 1,400 people were exposed, resulting in more than 550 people treated at hospitals, including some with serious lung injuries.

Until its positive identification in 2003, it was known as Bradfordcoccus and falsely suspected as the cause of a 1992 pneumonia outbreak in the West Yorkshire mill town of Bradford, England.

In reporting on the mill town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Wilson believed that he was getting closer to the heart of history: the workers and their default leaders weren't marginal losers — they were the prophets of the future.

Meanwhile, Eastern Kentucky is coal country, and if Trump crushes Clinton by landslide proportions there, he could be on his way to exceeding expectations in the mining and mill towns of southern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, too.

In one recent case, 179 residents (or their survivors) of the old uranium milling town of Uravan, Colo., sued mill owner and operator Union Carbide Corporation for causing various cancers and other illnesses.

The Whippet traveled to the US with English mill operators in the mid-1800s, and the Massachusetts mill towns of Lawrence and Lowell became the center of Whippet racing in this country.

Travel 140 kilometres (87 miles) to the former lumber milling town of Walpole and have a coffee at Four Sisters Coffee Shop before you visit the Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk, a 40 metre (131 foot) high walkway through the forest's canopy designed to move — which is fun or scary, depending on your perspective — with the majestic red - barked tingle eucalyptus trees that are found nowhere else in the world.

Not exact matches

The story it has crafted for St. Elizabeth involves a mill owner founding the town many decades ago, lending some whimsy to what would otherwise be a group of homes and apartments on a patch of land just outside Hamilton.

A few years after Lowell's death in 1823, a group of his associates founded the town of Lowell (about 20 miles north of Waltham) in his name and a series of textile mills under a new company name (the Merrimack Manufacturing Company).

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.

Today, Kennecott is a popular tourist attraction and the National Park Service is currently stabilizing and rehabilitating many of the mill and town buildings.

William Blake wrote of England's «dark satanic mills,» and Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times describes the prototypical industrial city of Coke - town in terms more hellish than heavenly.

This style of religious architecture had a lasting effect on the architecture of New England and other kinds of buildings — schoolhouses, town halls, libraries, even factories and mills.

But the town enjoyed a large Catholic population, descendants of immigrants who had come in the 19th century to work in the mills, and they filled two large and thriving churches.

Most started playing professionally on one of the thousands of semi-pro clubs and company teams scattered across the country: steel mills and ice creameries offered $ 40 a month plus a job for good arms and hot bats, and every small town in the Midwest seemed to have its own amateur squad.

Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.

In 1823, Charles Kellogg built a flour mill on the banks of Bear Swamp Creek in the town of Sodom, N.Y..

As legend has it, once the flour mill was completed, the Forman climbed to the top and declared the town of Sodom renamed as New Hope.

Empresas de Antioquia, Antioquia Region, Colombia Our newest mill is in the Antioquia Region of northern Colombia in the picturesque town of Jardin.

People are milling around on the town's only street; this is the social event of the year in Michigan Bluff, and the elite among the locals sit in armchairs, lined up along the thoroughfare, to survey the scene.

But where the Star is comfortable in its role as England's National Enquirer — this is the paper that recently brought us news of CRABZILLA, a 50 - foot - wide crustacean that has so far failed to consume any of England's south coast towns — the Express plays a far more pernicious role in the mill.

Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set «em up Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) and Senator Greg Ball (R,C,I - Patterson) today called for tough new legislation to protect our companion animals from being left outside in the freezing cold all day and night like what was occurring in the puppy mill in the town of Sprakers in Montgomery County.

Tackling the BNP is about recognising that there are hundreds of thousands of hard - working families in northern mill - towns, the once - smokey bits of the Midlands, blue collar estates in the Thames estuary and pockets of post-industrial Britain around the country who feel let down by the Establishment and are turning to the only party that talks about their concerns (Incidentally, they aren't necessarily core Labour voters, they are mostly long - standing, fed - up non-voters).

Legislator Lynne Dixon is pleased to announce that a portion of this funding will be dedicated to mill and overlay work on McKinley Parkway from Willet Road to Route 20 in the Town of Hamburg.

In the statement, Morse touted the economic development efforts in the old mill town outside of Albany.

In Depew, near Buffalo, on Tuesday, Mr. Clinton provided an extemporaneous laundry list of her efforts upstate, including a partnership with eBay that trained craft makers in mill towns on the Erie Canal to sell their goods online, and efforts to transform a vacant car dealership in Buffalo into an artist's work space, funnel federal funding to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and protect the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

Ms. Noerdlinger's boyfriend problem is just more grist for the mill for Mr. Mullins and other union leaders, who are spinning the idea that the mayor's reforms are making the city less safe — Mr. Mullins going so far as to place a paid advertisement in newspapers urging the Democratic National Convention not to come to town because New York is «lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger - infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.»

To the residents of Donora, Pa., a mill town in a crook of the Monongahela River, the daily haze from nearby zinc and steel plants was the price of keeping their families fed.

The WA government is eager to set up a pulp mill in the southwest corner of the state near the coastal town of Bunbury.

Clairton, a mill town, is «home to the [U.S. Steel] Clairton Coke Works, which is the largest coke - making facility in the nation,» said Rachel Filippini, executive director of the environmental organization Group Against Smog and Pollution.

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The stove reminded me of one my Dad's Mom had in their house in little mill town in PA many many years ago.

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Along the way, Étaix satirizes the marmoreal chill of the bourgeoisie, the small - town gossip mill, and, above all, the absurd yet agonized, blundering yet callous delusions of desire.

Directors / writers Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, creators of «The Office» and «Extras,» jump to the big screen with a comic drama of three best friends facing dead - end lives in a small British mill town in the seventies.

Director Terrence Malick's beautifully shot period piece, which won an Oscar for its cinematography, tells the story of Bill (Richard Gere), an early - 1900s Chicago steel - mill worker who flees town after accidentally killing a man.

Gist: Written by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby, the film tells the story of two brothers living in a mill town in the economically depressed Rust Belt.

He soon becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

is less about the production than about the saga of Weirton, West Virginia — where most of the film's exteriors were shot — and the crumbling steel mill that once held the town together.

Her distant husband of 20 years, Richard (John Slattery), is elsewhere, preoccupied with the imminent closing of the paper mill that sustains this town and will eventually affect his logging job.

The idea for the quilt started during a class trip to a quilting show in Lowell, Mass., a former mill town about 30 miles north of Cambridge.