Sentences with phrase «small town i was in»

In the small town i'm in in ala we can» get the vanilla bean or the powder on some of your ingredients so where could you find what you need without spending a fortune, were on limited income

It could just be the small town I was in, but the gifted education was seriously lacking.

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We are headquartered in a small town, so I use a small private plane combined with commercial air to connect with as many clients and customers as I can in person at tradeshows and special events.

Medical marijuana dispensaries, online seed sellers, head shops selling drug paraphernalia, sellers of hydroponic equipment and so - called vapour lounges where customers are welcome to smoke their own weed make up a budding industry, not just in big cities but in suburbs and small towns too.

When Easton Wren arrived in Canada in 1968 to work for Amoco, Calgary was a small town with a tightly knit oil and gas industry.

Sean Conlon was born and raised in the small town of Rathangan in County Kildare, Ireland.

Founder Cloid H. Smith was a pioneer in the U.S. popcorn industry, hand - shelling the corn himself and selling it to grocers and to popcorn wagons in small Midwestern towns.

Depending on where you're located (for example, a medical transport business in downtown Boston where there are numerous large medical facilities opposed to a small town in southern Indiana) will dictate whether you can do this business yourself or need employees.

Sonoma is also ranked number one by U.S. News on its Best Small Towns to Visit in the U.S.A. ranking and second on its Best Places to Visit in July list.

With the proliferation of competing entertainment options available in smaller towns and a decline in baseball interest, owners had been looking instinctively to the still - thriving major leagues to figure out how to compete.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Lavallo grew up in a small town in Indiana, but explained to CNBC's «On the Money» that he was always «globally - minded,» with a father born in Italy and a mother with roots in Germany.

It's not a pretty picture, and regardless what the authors» think of small businesses, they are crucial to thousands of smaller towns across America, and critical to our overall entrepreneurial vibrancy that has created the greatest economy in history.

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

Population and economic activity has been flat to declining in rural areas and small towns, with very few exceptions.

It may not be a brand, but a small town police department in Minnesota (not to be confused with the state of Wyoming) tweeted a photo of its «undercover operations» for National Weed Day.

Sure, that was bad for your business (particularly if it's based in a small town or serves a tight knit community), but it's nothing like our post-social media reality.

At a program such as Arkansas State, located in a small town and without the benefit of being the state's flagship university or being a member of a major conference, great results are contingent on the ability to market better, faster and with less resources.

James Maclean, an engineer at the office who happens to be from Hawkestone — a small town north of Barrie — tested it out on his village and added in all sorts of stuff.

As 3 a.m. was closing in on election night, Ron Ferrance sat in a crowded party for local Republican volunteers in the small town of Dallas, Pennsylvania.

And if you represent a small town in Hawaii, Herjavec is rooting for you.

Though beach fires are no longer allowed here (they are in neighboring towns like Nags Head), stationary fireworks that emit only sparks or smoke are permitted by state law and small - time fireworks can be purchased throughout the state.

Being in a small town, they don't have the luxury of focusing only locally — they have to think globally by necessity.

By its reserved standards — Winnebago is self - effacing in just the way you might expect a small - town Iowa company to be (and I say that as a native of Cedar Rapids)-- the company lit up the joint.

After an accounting scandal in the late 1990s, Hammergren, a then 40 - year - old of modest upbringing from small - town Minnesota, was named co-CEO.

Model Bakery, a longtime fixture of Napa's Main Street in St. Helena, went from small - town gem to international sensation last spring when Oprah Winfrey told People magazine that her biggest luxury is having their English muffins flown in.

For example, a business is more likely to sell for a higher value in a major metropolitan area that is booming, versus a similar sized business in a small regional town that is having it really tough.

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Champagne said that's not what he hears in his own rural and small - town Quebec riding.

«But things are still stale in suburban areas and smaller towns.»

He has been making the rounds in Colorado, driving from one small mountain town to the next, meeting with county and local government officials and visiting the facilities in which he hopes to take an ownership stake — so far, two dispensaries and their growing facilities.

And that happens to be the strong suit of Groupe Valentine, a 95 - store, family - run chain based in small - town Saint - Hyacinthe east of Montreal.

I keep coming across this message, whether I'm visiting a bustling global city, a small town in rural England, a South African township or a G8 climate conference.

«It was pretty obvious they weren't quite expecting to find so much diversity and such great businesses in a small town in the suburbs,» he says.

Foreign oil companies would refuse to dish out any more money to develop the country's resources if it knew that it could be kicked out at any moment by overzealous prosecutors in small towns.

For those who love pulp fiction or the crime blotters in their town weeklies, however, there is no better place to look than in the small print of the Wall Street Journal's B section.

Some other department stores like Giant Tiger, Fields and the NorthWest Company are expanding their influence and do well in smaller towns, but the big four have the lion's share of the market.

A swathe of small towns across middle America will be rolling out the red carpet for people clamoring to see the total solar eclipse on August 21 — the first coast - to - coast total solar eclipse in the U.S. since 1918 — only visible from a few places.

«Being in a small town like we are, it's one more way for people to recognize you.»

Netflix description: «Secrets are just a part of daily life in the small Pennsylvania town of Hemlock Grove, where the darkest evils hide in plain sight.»

Here's a brief summary: You play as a small - town sheriff's deputy in Montana, where a violent religious cult has taken over.

Joshua Benton, head of the Nieman Journalism Lab, described in a recent essay how residents of the small Louisiana town he was raised in posted and re-posted hoaxes and false news reports about Hillary Clinton and other topics on Facebook.

«I'm originally from Arkansas, grew up in a small rural town there.

«Redistricting is a real problem, but the bigger problem is frankly that Democratic votes are just way too concentrated in too small of geographic areas» — big cities, instead of America's many small and mid-size towns.

(This is a drawback I experienced first - hand when I tried to go a week using Apple Pay for every purchase in my small, Colorado town.)

Among them is Robert «Bob» Wilmot, a former pipefitter who was able to rebuild a bed and breakfast he runs with his wife («the best cook in the county,» he says) in the small Bradford County town of Rome.

I grew up in a small Rhode Island town and my parents» dream was for me to grow up and become an actress.

As Cerf mentioned, the notion of privacy is still quite different in smaller towns today, like the one he used to live in.

Noah Ready - Campbell, who grew up in a small mountain town in Vermont, and Calvin Young, a Chinese immigrant whose family settled in the Virginia when he was 2 years old, both landed scholarship admission to boarding school (Philips Exeter and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, respectively).

Meanwhile, co-working spaces also were debuting across the country — and not just in the largest cities but in smaller urban areas and university towns with thriving populations of entrepreneurs and independent workers.