Sentences with phrase «rural town on»

Union is a small rural town on the surface, but harbours many secrets when explored.

The Good Hart Residency Program offers two - to three - week residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Good Hart, Michigan, a rural town on the scenic route known as the «Tunnel of Trees,» within walking distance to...

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On Wednesday March 24, the small rural town of Moora was declared a disaster area.

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.

Berry agrees, but one wonders if he would ever admit that his own partisan thumos in defense of the land has not itself become a commodity to be sold on a market for urban types who feel alienated from their own small town and rural backgrounds.

Now a transient place full of hipsters, bond traders, and actors, as well as actors and hipsters who are the children of bond traders, all searching for an «authentic» place to replace the Midwestern suburbs and rural towns they came to Brooklyn to escape, Brooklyn for me will always be Flatbush Avenue and Rudy Giuliani, Bernie (Goetz, not Madoff), and Ed Koch, block parties, radios murmuring Yankees games on back porches (all of us too poor to afford air conditioning, which kept us outside in that great urbanist semi-public space), the blackout of 1977 and the blizzard of 1995, Mickey Rivers and Bucky Dent, not to mention the wild cast of characters appearing in the Daily News, a paper that practically taught me to read.

I am forwarding the whole series of posts on this matter so far to a friend who is a farmer and pastor of a small congregation in a small rural farming town of South Africa.

I grew in a town where the big local church spent huge amounts on «foreign missions», but would not assist with any services for the poor across town or in nearby rural areas.

Rather, new factories were built, usually on the outskirts of small towns in heretofore rural America, where the mechanization of farms made available a pool of cheap, plentiful labor.

«I think that has a flow on effect through rural towns as well.

(Living in a small rural farm town in South Dakota in the early 80's, we did NOT have Costco to rely on.)

And in rural areas, more people are likely to be found in a Wal - Mart parking lot on a weekend than in the business district of a small town.

Even with the rural towns surrounding us, mothers still manage to «make it to the hospital» on time so homebirths are not very common.

It now looks like a typical rural, West Country town, with a mixture of beautiful historic buildings in the centre, and modern homes on the fringes.

The plans aim to improve productivity and connectivity of towns and cities across the country — tackling bottlenecks and traffic jams for road users, and taking away the misery of lorries and through - traffic thundering through rural villages on main roads.

I was born in rural Ulster County and grew up working on a vegetable farm in the Town of Esopus.

A majority of the residents who addressed the Lancaster Town Board trustees lived on Peppermint Road, a rural neighborhood in northeastern Lancaster that is home to horse barns,...

We are fortunate to live in a place that is marked by its proximity to the majestic Hudson River, its green rolling hills, and extraordinary history: from our place on the National Historic Register for many of the incredible old homes and other structures in our town, to our amazing agricultural and rural back story over the centuries which may be best exemplified by the annual New Baltimore Agfest.

I don't believe the County Executive has been on that roadway in a very long time, he hasn't given the rural towns the attention they deserve.

Hobart sits in the town of Stamford, on the northeast border of Delaware County, the fifth most rural of New York's 62 counties.

Often they settled in rural communities when they were economically more healthy, (e.g. in a small town that relied on one factory that left or mine that shut down), but never moved away.

Ithaca, Hastings in northern New York and Rosendale, a small town in rural Ulster County, made a group's list of most liberal cities in the U.S. based on political donations.

Our vision is for a Welsh economy based on skills, creating high - value jobs to revitalise our market towns and rural communities.

«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.

Holland prides itself on its charming, small - town atmosphere, its fine school system, and its rural friendliness.

With rural towns and cities facing challenges such as the opioid epidemic and related crimes, zombie properties and street safety, the mayor says it's a good time to refocus on the panel's work now that the city budget is complete.

The 19th Congressional District hugs New York's Capital District on the east, west and south, covering a number of small exurbs and rural towns.

The Town of Somerset, New York is a rural lakeside community located in the most eastern portion of Niagara County, on the southern shore of Lake Ontario.

ALBANY — A rural town outside of Albany plans to disconnect from the electrical grid, both to increase its reliance on renewable sources of energy and to gain some energy independence.

The two men held a press conference to draw attention to the proposed measure Friday at the County Center bus stop in Riverside, where they were joined by Riverhead Supervisor Sean Walter; Southold Supervisor Scott Russell; Tom Neely, Southampton Town transportation director; and Vince Taldone of Five Town Rural Transit, a group that has worked to improve public transportation on the East End.

On patrol one day last fall in Blythe, another California town along the Colorado, Matuska drove his SUV looking for large green lawns in rural areas that he hadn't noticed before — a new farm field or some other sign of small - scale irrigation bringing life to a red desert.

This is exactly what I focus on when I'm traveling, whether I'm in a rural town, a restaurant or an event with limited options.

Growing up in the rural town of Bethel provided Dr. Ryan with a unique perspective on life, health, and community.

We were spending 5 days in Bangkok, 3 days in a rural town, 4 days on an island, and then had a lot of travel time on either end.

In a busy, hectic society when we have little time available to go out socially, if we live in a rural area with lack of access to a visible gay community and find it difficult to decipher who's gay versus straight when out on the town, social media makes for a great leveraging tool to meet other single gay men.

If you live in a small town, city or rural area the chances of finding someone close to you is definitely better on these online dating services.

Information on their works in the fields of health, education, culture, rural development and economic promotion, primarily in least - developed countries in Track Santa Claus as he makes his way towards your home town delivering presents - he's reached the UK so keep your eye out!

Synopsis: The rural town of New Hope, Ala., has a pair of super-sized problems heading its way: There's a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf coastline, and t...

Bill, Delbert, Roscoe and Lyman Ward, were four barely literate bachelor brothers, aged 59 to 71, living in squalor on their 99 - acre dairy farm in Munnsville, a rural town in central New York.

It begins with a slapstick portrait of desperation: Shane Danger (Emile Hirsch), the cafe owner in a rural town, learns that he must cut back on his staff to make ends meet.

The bright red billboards with black lettering quickly become the talk of the town, despite being placed on a rural stretch of untraveled road outside the sleepy Missouri town of Ebbing.

The story is based on true events which took place in a rural Irish town land, thirty miles from Dublin.

It documents her tour of small and rural French towns in the company of a much younger artist (she's 89), named JR, during which they photographed working - class people and posted huge, blown - up images of them on local structures.

In his new film, writer - director John Michael McDonagh's The Guard, Cheadle plays a FBI agent, Wendell Everett, who arrives in rural Ireland to head up a large international drug trafficking investigation, and is then forced to rely on an eccentric small town cop, Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), with a confrontational and crass personality.

It's hell though, for the folks in A Quiet Place — New England farmers (John Krasinski, Emily Blunt) who, on day 89 of the alien plague, are scavenging for food and medicine and useful items in a deserted rural town.

The non-reaction of the town is indicative of the nebulous hold the dictator and the Fascist movement had on rural citizenry.

January 11, 2013 • A rural Connecticut town is now home to 13 families from Staten Island who lost everything after Superstorm Sandy — and more families are on the way.

Creating wall - sized portraits of locals as they travel from town to town, the two inquisitive, kindred - spirit directors peer into the day - to - day life of rural and working - class France, the camera listening and learning as old and middle - aged villagers remember how coal miners used to bathe and eat back in the day or goat - cheese makers give their differing opinions on the subject of dehorning.

The setting is a rural Texas town in 1976, on the last day of school.

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.