Alec Duthie, who helps run farmers' markets in Leicestershire, says that the county town's charter, protecting what claims to be one of Europe's largest covered markets, has made it impossible to set up farmers' markets nearby.
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He said the fact that the town is the county town which is where the county and borough councils are based, as well as the scheme whereby retailers make contributions towards cleaning, security and marketing means Taunton is in good shape to attract other retailers to fill the derelict shops.
The town board in the Tompkins County town of Dryden, 40 miles southwest of Syracuse, voted unanimously in August 2011 to amend the zoning law to ban gas drilling.
Gas drilling company Lenape Resources, based in western New York, had sued the Livingston County town of Avon and the state Department of Environmental Conservation over the town's moratorium on drilling, saying the action threatened to put it out of business after it had operated in the town for decades.
They settled well north of Seattle, on Samish Bay in the Skagit County town of Blanchard, just thirty miles from the Canadian border.
The vacated site of a former young offenders centre in the County Down town was left untouched for years.
The county or town vote is put into statistical models, and Edison makes estimates and projections using those models.
The ban on drilling in the Tompkins County town of Dryden was originally challenged by Denver-based Anschutz Exploration Corp.
Earlier this month, another local Supreme Court judge upheld a challenge to a drilling ban in the Livingston County town of Avon.
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.
In 2000, Democratic Unionist Party councillors objected to the proposal because of alleged derogatory remarks Neeson made about his experiences growing up in the County Antrim town.
Mr Dunne said the County Down town had "great potential" and needed to be actively promoted so that it was "a place that people wanted to visit".
Mullins have been making and selling ice cream in the small County Londonderry town since 1954.
No-one has been criminally convicted of the bomb attack that devastated the County Tyrone market town in August 1998.
The small County Londonderry town is more than 100km (62 miles) from Belfast.
Tojo dropped in to the County Cork seaside town of Clonakilty during the Second World War when a US bomber had to land nearby.
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.
The county council and Newhaven Town Council successfully challenged this ruling at the Court of Appeal.
He's been campaigning in rural counties since the caucuses, and he now has four offices open, including one in Lyon County in the town of Fernley.
The Institute of Fundraising said it wanted to work with the county council to manage sites in the town centre.
He headed to another significant Celtic site, the Rock of Cashel, in the town of Cashel, County Tipperary, about 94km north of Cork, which then rivalled Tara as a centre of power in Ireland.
The county councillor for the town, Bob Ellison, said he does not believe this will happen.
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That county includes the town of Kingston, where Adam Lanza's father, Peter, was raised.
Community councils were created at the same time as the major reorganisation of local government in the mid-70s which abolished the old town and county councils and created regions such as Strathclyde and Tayside.
But campaigners say it would damage town centre trade and they have collected about 10, 000 signatures against the plans - the same number as there are residents in the town, according to county council statistics.
But we are talking about devolving the management function, so that rather than people sitting in the Town Hall or the County Hall, you actually do devolve down to neighbourhood or parish level, and I think that's a positive thing.
Both men are ranchers in Wyoming, although Walt is from the fictional Absaroka County while Johnson lives in the very real town of Ucross, population 25.
The 17th century anti-monarchist and former Lord Protector of England attacked the town of Drogheda in County Louth in 1649 with 12, 000 Roundheads.
The revamp coincides with Durham County Council's redevelopment of the town.
The party does have a big majority on the Devon county council, but is much weaker in the town of Exeter.
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