Sentences with phrase «prominent family in the town»

An agricultural company has acquired an Eden warehouse from a prominent family in the town, paying $ 2.566 million.

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Ms. Gillibrand evinces an aw - shucks political persona, but she was born into a deeply political family, the daughter of a prominent Albany lobbyist and the granddaughter of Dorothea «Polly» Noonan, a key aide to the longtime Democratic kingmaker in town, Mayor Erastus Corning.

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, «The Help» stars Emma Stone (star of the breakout hit, «Zombieland») as Skeeter, a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends» lives - and a small Mississippi town - upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.

Because Belize City was the center of the nation's commercial life, the majority of elite families lived or maintained a residence there, although some prominent families were based in the district towns.

You'll find the Pirate's Well dug by buccaneers that roamed here in the past; a former U.S. military base and tracking station built in the 1950s; and the Abraham's Bay Town Square, with an old homestead of a prominent family; and the «well shack» where locals gathered to collect water as late as the 1980s.

The Bishops were a prominent early family in Niagara - on - the - Lake and active in the town's political and economic life.