"This is a close village and community, in the best traditional sense, and the school is very much part of that community, " he explained.
People in a Shropshire village have launched a bid to run their own community shop after the only local store closed down.
After four years the group raised enough money to transform an outdated village hall into a community hub - with a local shop, coffee shop and a post office due to open soon.
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Plans have been drawn up to bring a "community-owned" solar power plant to a Somerset village.
HaloCard was conceived by Nick Lepetsos, the 45-year-old president of First American State Bank, a community bank in Greenwood Village, Colo.
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Halvorson was greeted by cheers of "good luck" and "go Debbie go" as she cast her ballot at a suburban community center in the village of Steger.
Bournville Village was built around the Cadbury factory in Birmingham as a vision of an ideal village where residents participated in community events.
The village community used to afford a degree of protection.
Community life in Cherche, a village 80 miles south of Lvov, is strong.
An application to build 54 homes in a Gwynedd village is being opposed by the local community council, which says the area would be over-developed.
It is a community ritual in which the entire village participates.
In southern Lebanon the tiny hilltop village of Qawza is home to a small Christian community.
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Brian Medhurst, church treasurer, said the community cinema was "becoming a feature of village life".
Locals say the pub, which dates back to 1779 and was the only one in the village, was a "key part" of the community.
After a shooting in Raurimu in New Zealand last year in which six people died, members of the tiny community huddled together in a classroom at the village school, to avoid reporters.
Students Helping Honduras is working with community members of Siete de Abril to build a new village.
The United Nations, the World Bank and any organization you can think of say that an educated girl is a girl who can get a job, become a breadwinner and raise herself, her family, her village, her community and eventually her whole country.
She was a member of the higher-caste Jaat community and from the same village, Mehrana, near the border with Haryana state.
The video purported to show residents of Yitzhar -- a community in Samaria - throwing rocks at Palestinians from the neighboring village Bureen for no reason whatsoever.
So a year ago a small shop was refurbished, a counter installed and a credit union was opened by local people for the Donegall Road and Village community.
Organisers hope to support schemes like the Storth post office project, which saw residents of the South Lakeland village save their post office from closure by turning it into a community run venture.
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The cluster of old buildings that houses the community seems at first to be a small but classic New England village.
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It is linked to the Town of Telluride by a gondola unique in all of skiing, owned by the community of Mountain Village and operated as public transportation.
For example, in the Dominican Republic, following the proclamation of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella, which organises socio-religious ceremonies stemming from African-American culture, threats have disappeared: the plan to build a road that would have cut in half the village of Mata Los Indios, the community's core, has been abandoned, and the confraternity's activities have become more famous than ever (via CD-Rom, participation in events, etc.).
But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village.
From a man who had used it to create a "smart" cat feeder able to recognise each of his cats and give them the correct amount of food, to quadcopters used to transport things from one African village to another, access to a cheap microcontroller was creating a buzz in the maker community, he said.
Over the last decade, a small, community-centric tourism industry has sprung up here, with local guides leading village-to-village treks through the mountainous farmland.
These visits play an important role in building community in Shimo-Koshiki: children gradually develop a sense of affiliation with their village and its culture, while the men who act as Toshidon reinforce their identity and the continuity of their longstanding traditions.
With variations distinctive to each village, the annual carnival bell ringers' pageant is a way to strengthen bonds within the community and a valuable means of renewing friendships among the towns in the region while integrating newcomers into its traditional culture.
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