Sentences with phrase «rural town about»

In California City, a rural town about two hours north of Los Angeles, straight into the desert, there is a small animal shelter that operates on extremely limited resources.

In California City, a remote rural town about two hours north of Los Angeles, there is a small animal shelter that operates on extremely limited resources.

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Santa Fe is a tiny rural town — only about 20 households of expats live here, Mitzi says.

Editor / Primary Writer: Becky McCray About Small Biz Survival: The Small Biz Survival Blog is specifically focused on providing helpful and practical information for the rural and small - town small business owner.

So begins Pope Michael, a weird, intriguing, and distressing documentary about a young man in a small town in rural eastern Kansas who, after being elected by six people, a group that included his parents and himself, claimed to be the Bishop of Rome.

They are concentrated in the South, truer to the stereotype — about half of their members live in these areas — with large numbers, nearly seventy percent, living in small cities, towns, and rural areas.

He was born May 12, 1902, in Hiram, a small town in rural Ohio about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland, the only child of Anna and Green Trice.

About Old Sturbridge Village Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, depicts a rural New England town of the 1830s.

The Ministry through Community Water and Sanitation Agency will implement Phase 2 of the Sustainable Rural Water Supply Project, which will see to the construction of about 50 small town water pipe schemes and over 300 boreholes.

The family moved about 20 minutes east, to a rural town called Jamul.

The idea that upstate New York is a «vast» bucolic region of rural space and «some towns» didn't sit well with upstate - based political reporters and elected officials, who (including yours truly) snarked in almost disbelief response that a former U.S. senator from New York could be so tone deaf about the region that yes, does include «vast, rural» areas, but also cities and suburban communities.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, and Congressman Chris Gibson, a Republican, will be at the Sullivan County Cornell Cooperative Extension office in Liberty to talk about a provision of the Farm Bill that includes an extension of the Rural Economic Area Partnership, or REAP, Zone designation for Sullivan County and Town of Wawarsing in Ulster County.

«This is the exact example I give to people about how every vote counts,» Kellogg said on November 8, noting how she knew of at least three absentee votes — her husband and two daughters — who were likely to end up in her tally, as well as how absentees tend to break for Democrats in Hurley and other rural towns in Ulster County.

April 2012 Focus Features announces Promised Land, a Matt Damon vehicle about a jaded natural - gas salesman and the rural town his company wants to exploit.

A political scientist's research explains a lot about why true - blue Wisconsin turned red in 2016, and about the mood of rural and small town America

People in small towns resent having it characterized as racism — and also, there's so much racism in our cities, so rural folks say: What are you talking about?

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Well, about $ 70 billion a year, plus a million jobs, mostly in rural and small - town America.

About a quarter live in cities, but most are in rural areas, often hundreds of kilometres from a large town.

Of 754 twins born between 1734 and 1888 in five towns in rural Finland, girls from mixed - gender pairs proved 25 percent less likely to have children, had at least two fewer children, and were about 15 percent less likely to marry than those born with a sister.

The rural town of Banks, population 1,700, is located about 25 miles west of NUNM.

In my small town / rural farming community when Im out and about (mail, walking dogs) I dress what people would see as «normal».

March 28, 2017 • There's a lot of talk about how to revive small towns, especially in the rural Midwest, which Donald Trump carried easily.

Set in the 1950's, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past.

You can see it in Steven Soderbergh's experimental «Bubble» from 2006, a love triangle set in a small - town doll factory featuring non-actors, and in Zhang Yimou's 2000 drama «Not One Less,» about the struggles of schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village played by... schoolchildren in a rural Chinese village.

(In French with subtitles) Small Town Murder Songs (Unrated) Peter Stormare stars in this gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer who successful suppresses his violent tendencies until a murder disrupts the peace of his tight - knit, Mennonite community in rural Ontario.

There is a lot of talk right now about how best to try and bring back struggling small towns, especially in the rural Midwest, which Donald Trump carried easily.

The Magic of Belle Isle is a dramedy about a «wheelchair - bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.»

Rural education scholars and activists from all corners of the globe converged June 19 - 23 on this historic foothills town near the Virginia - Tennessee border to share information about the struggles of rural schools and people worldRural education scholars and activists from all corners of the globe converged June 19 - 23 on this historic foothills town near the Virginia - Tennessee border to share information about the struggles of rural schools and people worldrural schools and people worldwide.

Whether you found it in a rural town, a major city, or a sprawling suburb, you could say for certain a number of things about that school.

And again, we're talking about a whole range of school districts: rural, small town - yes, large city school systems that may have more resources.

This book, based on a little school in a rural town of Minnesota, describes the creation of and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can be and do.

Home schooling accounted for about 4 percent of these students in rural areas, compared to 3 percent in both cities and suburban areas, and around 4 percent in towns.

The couple races back to a town that is all about pointing fingers, since practically the entire population of the rural town had been Joe's victim at one time or another.

I enjoyed researching this period of about 1919, when women had the vote in New York but not yet throughout the U.S.; when cars and telephones were changing even rural towns; when publishing birth control education materials could lead to jail time.

The rural town has a population of about 2,100 people and is part of Webster County.

Have you thought about whether you will elect to keep your cat as an indoor cat, as a cat with a home base going outside, or a «cat about town» who may drop over to the porch for a treat now and then but lives on your farm or rural property as an outdoor kitty?

Lindale is a pretty rural town, and the location is a little off the beaten path so the majority of vehicles driving by were either to look at the adoption center or headed to a small, nearby neighborhood consisting of only about six houses or so.

Situated about a 15 - minute drive south and slightly east of Saugatuck / Douglas in the small and fairy rural town of Fennville, Campit Outdoor Resort (6635 118th Ave., Fennville, 269-543-4327) is one of the largest LGBT camping venues in the Midwest.

Your tour begins in Copenhagen and ends in Oslo with overnights also in Arhus, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Karlstad, Lillehammer, Flåm, Bergen, and Geilo.Guided sightseeing in the cities includes Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue and Tivoli Gardens, the world's second - oldest amusement park; Stockholm's City Hall, where the annual Nobel Prize banquet is held; Lillehammer's Maihaugen Open - Air Museum, where you'll learn about life in Norway over the past 500 years through a re-created rural town; and Oslo's Frogner Park, with Gustav Vigeland's 200 + bronze and granite sculptures.

Monteverde, Costa Rica is a rural town located in a mountainous area called the Cordillera de Tilaran, about a 4 hour drive from the capital city of San Jose.

The drive from the capital city of Hobart around to the northern town of Burnie, returning past a trio of distilleries in the rural Midlands, covers about 900 kilometres (559 miles).

Whether they show huge cities, small towns, or rural villages, there's something wonderful about maps — the rivers, roads and buildings look beautiful.

Art critics had favorable opinions about the painting; like Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley, they assumed the painting was meant to be a satire of rural small - town life.

Her close relationship with her mentor Raoul De Keyser, an abstract painter who favored a style that was at once intuitive, economical, and ever so subtly referential, preceded (and predicted) her gradual transition to a similar brand of abstraction around 1995, about the same time that she moved a half hour's drive outside of Ghent to the rural town of Paulatem.

Her close relationship with her mentor Raoul De Keyser, an abstract painter who favored a style that was at once intuitive, economical, and ever so subtly referential, preceded (and predicted) her gradual transition to a similar brand of abstraction around 1995, about the same time that she moved a half hour's drive outside of Ghent to the rural town

On the «that's what people do now» bit, you might note that I just moved from a suburb in a conurbation of 5 or 6 million to a rural road outside a town of about 7,000.

Specifically, 55 - 60 % of the stations are rural, about 20 % are small town, and 20 - 25 % are urban, with some temporal variation.

Oke (1973 and Torok et al (2001) show that even towns with populations of 1000 people have urban heating of about 2.2 C compared to the nearby rural countryside.

Watch the short documentary from the Story of Stuff to learn more about what companies like Nestlé do when they show up in rural towns or continue to pump water out of national forests, disregarding a permit that expired nearly 30 years ago.