But business people in a County Down town had hoped it would be the answer to anti-social behaviour.
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People are being warned of the dangers of "free running" following a number of incidents in a County Durham town.
Price and I drove down Route 33 from Athens, into Meigs County and a town called Pomeroy, which once had been a loading dock for coal barges and now lay prostrate and blighted along the Ohio River.
Another exciting open data announcement came from the U.S. Census Bureau which updated its popular QuickFacts site with the new American Community Survey statistics (about 11 billion individual estimates), providing access to information about a town, county or state.
Perkins and his son, Robert, stumbled upon the idea of buying busted homes when a friend showed them two residences in a town in northern San Diego County that he'd bought from banks, fixed up and rented out.
Ms. FRANCES BANKS: My name is Frances and I live in a small town in Perry County.
She and her family were driving home from a softball tournament Sunday afternoon as the fire rolled toward their home on the southern edge of Graham, a small town in Young County.
Locals launched a campaign to urge Anglesey County Council to run a market in the ferry port town following the success of twice weekly markets at Llangefni.
Earlier this month, another local Supreme Court judge upheld a challenge to a drilling ban in the Livingston County town of Avon.
During the visit President Obama will hold a town hall meeting at Lorain County Community College in Elyira, with workers, local business leaders and small business owners about ideas for continuing to grow the economy and put Americans back to work.
The vacated site of a former young offenders centre in the County Down town was left untouched for years.
Though Shih grew up in Lukang, a town in Taiwan's breadbasket county of Changhua, he had little exposure to farming.
But both employers and immigrants advocates have a more persuasive objection to every town, county and state adopting its own scheme to control the employment of illegal aliens: They could be forced to deal with a confusing and expensive patchwork of laws without adequate protections.
The project is on a tributary of the Ausable River in the Essex County town of Jay, where an undersized culvert has caused severe erosion.
The personal property tax is a local tax collected annually by your town or county, usually in the same way real estate taxes are collected.
"It could be a real good thing, " says 23-year-old Frank Johnson, who lives in the Pope County seat of Golconda, a shrinking Ohio River town of 670.
In the Middlefield case, dairy farmer Jennifer Huntington, owner of Cooperstown Holstein, is appealing the ruling of a state Supreme Court judge in Otsego County upholding the town's drilling ban.
Holyhead Town County Councillor, Cliff Everett, said he hoped the new market would give the town a boost and attract more people to do their shopping there.
Berlin, once a Coos County paper hub whose motto is "The City That Trees Built, " had been a bustling mill town of more than 15, 000 in 1970 but by 2010 had lost nearly 40% of its population, he said.
So it's not just a matter of a new centralisation of power in the Town Hall or the County Hall, it's also about involving people on local issues.
Details have emerged of a plan to relocate 2, 500 county council staff from out of town offices into Northampton town centre.
That's significant in a town of 5, 000 people, and in a county that has the highest unemployment rate in Vermont: 7.1 percent, double the state average.
Councillor Deryck Nash, from Cirencester Town Council, said the project was a partnership with Gloucestershire County Council.
The Llanelli Disabled Access Group has praised Carmarthenshire County Council and presented them with a certificate for their work in the town.
The party does have a big majority on the Devon county council, but is much weaker in the town of Exeter.
Tojo dropped in to the County Cork seaside town of Clonakilty during the Second World War when a US bomber had to land nearby.
Karl Brabenec, supervisor of the Town of Deerpark in Orange County, said he was at a gun rights rally when he heard about the New Rochelle dispute.
Twenty-nine people died and more than 200 were injured when a car bomb, left by the Real IRA, exploded in the County Tyrone town on 15 August 1998.
In April, I travelled to Inez, a town in eastern Kentucky, where McCain was scheduled to speak at the county courthouse.
Twenty-nine people were killed and more than 200 injured in a car bomb, left by the dissident republican Real IRA, in the County Tyrone town on 15 August 1998.
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