Sentences with phrase «year by a local resident»

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Local residents also get to enjoy free shows put on by the Navy's Blue Angels twice a year.

Alton Sterling, the Baton Rouge man who was shot by police on July 5, had peddled CDs for years and law enforcement officers would have known he was not a threat if they were more familiar with the area, local residents said.

Meet area residents and local consumers by participating in one of the numerous community events that LSRCC organizes each year.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

We used that decision - making power to deliver on promises we had made to the electors: rapid demographic change had led to a shortage of local primary school places, so in the last four years we used the Council's resources to expand local primary schools to create twice as many; concerns about a scruffy and run down high street were addressed by comprehensive neighbourhood renewal; and pressure on household budgets was relieved by freezing the council tax and the cost of resident's parking permits.

CLARKSTOWN PHONY CHECK SCAM HAS POLICE ALERTING RESIDENTS Clarkstown Police are alerting all local residents to be more vigilant and wary of scammers after an 86 - year - old man say he was scammed out of close to $ 20,000 by way of a phoRESIDENTS Clarkstown Police are alerting all local residents to be more vigilant and wary of scammers after an 86 - year - old man say he was scammed out of close to $ 20,000 by way of a phoresidents to be more vigilant and wary of scammers after an 86 - year - old man say he was scammed out of close to $ 20,000 by way of a phony check.

The development plans for the new 494 - foot tower, originally announced a year ago as a much - maligned 600 - foot residence and hotel, has already been criticized by some of the local officials and residents tasked with reviewing the project.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE — «Coney Island's boardwalk becomes an NYC landmark on its 95th anniversary,» by Curbed New York's Tanay Warerkar: «The Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island was officially designated New York City's eleventh scenic landmark on Tuesday morning, capping a years long effort by local residents and elected officials to officially recognize the cultural icon that is synonymous with visiting Coney Island.

«By reining in excessive property tax costs and building on accomplishments achieved over the past six years, our efforts to reduce wasteful spending and increase public involvement in local government with these shared services plans will lessen the tax burden for residents and ensure New York remains the greatest state in the nation.»

Since the beginning of the year, nearly 150 local residents have reportedly died from overdoses, while numerous more lives were saved by Narcan.

A group led by Christina Johnson, an educator and local resident, applied to the SUNY Charter Schools Institute earlier this year to establish the Mohawk Valley Community Charter School within the Utica School District to serve elementary - aged children.

In the first concrete sign that local doctors are becoming more cautious about prescribing highly addictive opioid pain killers, hydrocodone has been replaced this year by ibuprofen as the most - prescribed medication for Erie County residents on Medicaid.

The company was founded 12 years ago by local resident Cormach Murrihy.

Miller, a Southeast Queens resident for 35 years, was backed by a number of unions, including The Uniformed Fire Officers Association, 1199 SEIU, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and 32BJ SEIU.

The corpse of a 32 - year - old driver, Joseph Kehinde has been discovered inside the gutter by residents of Arepo in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of...

In 2012, we reported on plans by pharmaceutical giant Hoffmann - La Roche to close its Nutley research center, which for more than 80 years provided thousands of jobs to generations of scientists and other local residents.

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

DETROIT — For years, Detroit residents have grown sadly accustomed to — and emotionally numbed by — reports in the local media of teen - agers gunning each other down over matters as trivial as a refusal to hand over a fashionable item of clothing.

The Center for Montessori in the Public Sector is being pitched by a group of local residents and parents, including Nate Snow, who taught for three years in Bridgeport under the Teach for America program.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

Despite two years in which school reform was at the forefront of the political debate in New Jersey, a majority of the state's residents are happy with the education provided by their local public schools, according to a poll released Tuesday.

Devito, a tan shepherd mix, was adopted by Sherrie McNeill and her son, Stephen, and has since become fast friends with their resident dog, Buddy, whom they adopted from a local shelter 12 years ago.

The paws4people Foundation is unique in that it was started in Loudoun County in 1999 by twelve year old local resident, Kyria Henry, with the purpose of using dogs as a means of helping people.

Just getting pet owners, both local Vietnamese and foreign residents, to spay and neuter their cats is a real challenge as the prevailing mentality is that breeding is the «natural» thing to do, though by that mentality, it's also natural for a cat to live for less than a year while suffering from disease, malnutrition, and abuse.

This work documents an extensive collection of water samples from the Yamuna amassed by the artist every day over the course of a year, accompanied by short texts written by her and local residents.

Reflecting the scope of the SLG's work in the local area in recent years, four parallel projects have been commissioned on walls by artists working with local residents, children, young people and gallery staff.

He blames the museum for «sucking the life out of Main Street,» two blocks away, by offering office space; for not stepping up to help other parts of downtown by, for example, partnering to find a use for the historic former Mohawk Theater movie house; and for offering free admission to local residents only one day a year.

Established by Theaster Gates in 2012, Black Cinema House hosts year - round screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora at multiple locations on the South Side of Chicago, and offers free video workshops to local residents.

Selected by critic Hilton Als, the works that comprise the «Uptown» show are portraits of friends, acquaintances and local residents Neel knew personally, or had some contact with during her long years living in East Harlem and later on the West Side at the same Upper Manhattan latitude.

There, strong local opposition to this plant backed by the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has delayed construction over two years as residents refuse to sell their land as they protest the project.

The storks, now celebrities in their village, are celebrated by local residents and reporters who welcome Rodan home every year and keep a close eye on their activities.