Sentences with phrase «over town tracking»

I didn't have to drive all over town tracking down sizes and colors.

Not exact matches

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.

Bonding over bourbon and bets at the dog track, Mendelsohn's deflated Gerry and Reynolds» human - charisma - machine Curtis decide to head south; there's a big - stakes card game going down in New Orleans and Gerry needs to get out of town quick, so it's goodbye Iowa and hello NOLA.

It's kind of like an overhead map and you choose where to lay out the track; across rivers, over mountains, in forests, in a little town.»

Soon after, there were four transcontinental lines, and by 1890, over 125,000 miles of track, and more than 1,000 different railroads blanketed the United States, transporting passengers to even the most remote towns, from coast to coast.

His bike lay twisted in the street behind him, its front tire still clamped in the groove of the new light - rail system tracks they were laying all over town.

Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead - end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track.

Hooked on Walking endeavour to track down the most pleasant hotel, inns, guest houses, and other accommodation in each town along their routes, which provide a comfortable and friendly stop over.

Soak up history at the former penal colony of Port Arthur, Hobart s historic waterfront and numerous gracious Georgian farmhouses throughout the countryside, walk over Cataract Gorge, a dramatic wilderness right in the centre of Launceston, take the Overland Track through the scenic beauty of Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, admire the perfect curve of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park, watch the majestic Gordon River meet the wild Franklin River in the spectacular wilderness of the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall, from the peaceful town of Rosebery.

The railroad wanted a town along its newly straightened track, so it bought property, held a lottery and then moved 67 settlers — houses and all — to the new site over the course of one summer.