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My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.

My wife is from a little town in Mexico, she grew up with chickens. The chickens are the first thing she fell in love with. They're cute, you know?

My wife and I are in the process of relocating to Nevada City, which we fell in love with because of its beauty, historical charm, and small town atmosphere.

My passion is playing, so I spend summers, Christmas, New Year's out of town all the time. It's great to be home. I got a lot of love around here.

Local restaurants have always had their regulars, but there are new people coming to town who may not have found those local gems yet.

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

Matt is on top of this town. He has USC playing for their third straight championship and they have everyone in this town really excited.

Like many Americans, I chose unwisely to not vote on some dates, on other dates I was out of town or busy raising a family of five. I've been a sinner and I ask forgiveness from the electorate.

Like I told the council, I wouldn't do anything drastic. Everything I've seen so far has been positive, and the staff is positive. The town is obviously growing, and growing rapidly. Those are things I'm going to be looking at. It's going to be a matter of looking at the challenges for the future.

Literally, while I was writing, the town eccentrics were looking over my shoulder, asking about what I was writing, listening to my explanations, offering their two cents. It had gotten around town pretty quickly that what Walter was doing inside his house could be viewed easily on a computer. I thought, 'This is more interactivity than I can stand!' But it was interesting too.

Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

I worked for her three years while I was in high school. Her son Tim and I ran together. She was wonderful to work for. Miss Patsy and the Dairy Bar have been part of this town for years. It can't be the same now.

I was in Charlotte, N.C., when they launched the NBA team there, the Charlotte Hornets. And the first guy to roll into town was Carolina native Michael Jordan.

I was happy to be in the NFL, living the dream. I'd get to play in the preseason when Brett would play a series or two and I got to play a quarter and a half and my whole family would come to town for the game. They never wanted tickets for the playoff games or the regular-season games, just the preseason games.

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

It feels like a ghost town to me. And that's a good thing.

I think people coming into town would go to the south and so folks up north would not get as much business.

I think people at the national level are looking at Gov. Perry and the state of Texas. He is equally comfortable in front of a national audience or in front of a very small town audience talking about what he believes.

I think (playing Carroll) is a good thing for our state. I'm pleased that they are coming to town and that we're able to compete against them. I think it's a good highlight for a lot of in-state players. I'm looking forward to a fun match on Tuesday.

I think everybody's feeling better today. But there's still a feeling of your town is getting crushed and nobody knows what's going on.

I think everybody is worried about overcrowding and the taxes on their homes. It all comes down to the peacefulness of this town. We need to go back to as peaceful as this town was before all of this divisiveness.

I think everybody in town lost their car. There was no insurance coverage for flood damage to cars and trucks,

I think everybody in this town will be fired up. People will be going crazy, it will be pandemonium.

It does take away all the distraction and all the negative energy around us. We're just going to leave town and try to get a good win.

It does take a little bit of the pressure off when you might not be expected to be there. This town has had a lot of close calls, so it's great just to be able to go and be part of the regional tournament. It's nice walking around, and have everyone say how cool it was to see you win a district title, and wish you good luck.

I think I have a good reputation around town as a hard-working actor who shows up and does his stuff and is professional. I like to think I have a blue collar work ethic. I've never seen acting as a birth right, something that you should take for granted. I think it's a rare kind of job that if you get the opportunity to do, you should be pretty grateful for it. So, I try not to take it for granted.

It did feel kind of good to get down there and prove to people that West isn't the only team in town that can play some ball.

I think more businesses are recognizing the economic value of having the arts as part of town life. It's exploding. It's a very exciting development and a testament to how vibrant the arts community is.

I think it would be irresponsible of the town not to explore it.

I think it would behoove the town to acquire the property and continue to look at its potential.

I think I was the only one in town that day when the show was announced.

I write in the mornings once the kids have gone to school, taking my laptop and a coffee to a little writer's room in town where I plant noise-cancelling headphones on my head and get to work.

Just about every old tree in town is down. The town just will never look the same in our lifetime. It breaks my heart. I'm so disgusted. Just about every ancient pecan and a lot of the oaks are gone.

Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.

Just because a middle-aged woman in a small Ontario town and a young gay man in a city have obvious differences doesn't mean they can't be extremely similar in terms of their existential lives, or in the way that they go about doing whatever it is they go about doing, be it sodomy or dusting, ... If you are bored with those activities, you may end up having similar reflections about them -- or they might be placeholders, or become obsessions.

It is designed to be a town center.

It is fitting and proper that we continue to honor our town fathers such as Briscoe, and it would be worthwhile if our current educators talked to their students about the man whose name currently adorns their place of learning,

I'm speaking towards the conceptual plan (that Quinlan is proposing), but I definitely think this project is something that town should pursue. There's not enough information yet, and I don't know if he can engineer proper septic systems and if it will be environmentally safe, but I think the town is doing the right thing by exploring the possibilities.

I'm so thankful the Park District is doing this, ... Rockford is such a great sports town and has a great golf history. It's a great idea to recognize some of the people who were so good in the game, and to have one of them be Ken is really neat.

Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be a perfect position for him. It's a similar town the size of Enfield; probably many of the same issues that he would be confronted with day to day.

I'm here pretty much every day. I do sometimes leave town deliberately because I need a break. We felt like the community needed a gathering place. I never knew how difficult the business would be, how much work, how unpredictable it would be.

We've talked on the phone and he's been doing things, but we haven't had a chance to sit down because we've been gone and he's been out of town so our schedules haven't meshed very well yet. We'll just talk about what I'd like to see him doing for this next little while.

The ability to narrow down the source location of the SMS to a town and even a particular store, gives us an edge in the competition industry. Our clients love the fact that our reporting can provide this level of detail.

The allure of the kind of blues that this town is known for is still here. If the crowd at one of these venues claps for me, that will be more satisfying than a venue in a large city.

The ABC group and our school district it's very pleasurable to see different segments of the town get together and push one way. It's been a fun deal to watch grow.

The Abbey up on 21st Street used to be at the far northern limit of South Beach action, but over the last two years the nightlife scene has expanded heavily into that area -- now known as the 'Cultural Arts District' -- and the Abbey finds itself right in the center of some of the hottest clubs in town such as Mynt, Rok Bar, SkyBar Miami Beach, and a new venue named Mokai which promises to be a South Beach trend-setter for the coming season,

The approach of playing out the events of Our Town on an open stage engages the audience directly and essentially makes it a character in the play. The play uses flashbacks and an awareness of the fluid nature of time as it explores the significance of fully living the present moment.

The American Hotel will be liquidating soon, and if we could have something by then, it would give us an extra tool. Our goal is to give the town a defense against demolition and heavy remodeling.

That would be great for the town and both programs. Both teams have a lot of hard work, but any postseason tournament with both teams in it would be great.

That would be great for the town and both programs, ... Both teams have a lot of hard work, but any postseason tournament with both teams in it would be great.

That was the best the town had at the time.

That works to the benefit of our residents. It will improve our tax base, allow us to have adequate budgets and provide the money the town needs for education and for projects like making the High School Annex suitable for re-use.

That sucks. It's not a surprise because it's a conservative town that likes its country. But we need some variety.

I was really excited. This is close to my home town in Hamilton. I grew up with Hockey Night in Canada sitting at home watching it. This was one of the biggest games of my life.

I was out of town when John (Given) resigned. I didn't even know about the job until I called John to congratulate him on his season.

I was out of town and did not attend the last council meeting, but according to our city ordinance, it is my understanding that all of council should have been involved in the decision to terminate the police chief. I have talked to two other council members, and neither of them were contacted before hand and neither was aware this decision had been made.

I was once told the fair comes to town once a year, and it's already come and gone. I would just encourage students to get their voice out at every opportunity they have.

I was born in a town of 200 people - it's 300 now, it's really grown - halfway between Memphis and Nashville, really the backside of nowhere.

I was born and grew up in Vandalia, Illinois, a small town of about 6,000. It was farm country, and this was the little county seat.

I wasn't here, but I've heard so many things about the job they did in 1997. We've only been in town for a few hours, but everybody has been first class in every way. I think that makes it easy for our guys to concentrate on the job at hand.

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.

Most of the places around town already went up about 20 something cents a gallon so we happened to find this which is still around about $2.50.

Most of the miners that you see in the movie were actual miners that live in that town or in villages nearby,

Most everybody who can has been a volunteer somewhere in town for some period of time. Like everybody else, we collected donations immediately after.

Merchants are very much looking forward to the new streetscape. Anything that makes the town more pedestrian-friendly will strengthen the pulling power for the greater Mystic attractions.

Migratory birds are being blamed, but once poultry has been infected, it can spread from town to town, especially if people buy the infected poultry.

Wildlife, septic systems, agriculture, boats and road run-off all contributed to the problem. The town has worked to try to get these things corrected.

When the ball doesn't go in the basket, you start hoping you can get out of town under the cloak of darkness. Confidence has dwindled here. We'll see whether the second half against La Salle has energized and picked up their emotional level. We've put ourselves in a precarious situation in terms of the league.

We have PEO and bridge clubs who meet here a lot. Several businesses have their holiday or annual meetings here. Caterers come in for special events and use our kitchen facility. We also have groups from town decorate each room at Christmas and we're featured in Wakefield's Tour of Homes at that time.

We have only been in the Rolla market about three years, but we have enjoyed considerable success and the feedback we have gotten tells us it would be good to offer our wide range of services on the south side of town as well,

You have to evoke a sense of responsibility in the townspeople to participate in the government. But the bottom line is that it's an individual choice. An open town meeting is more time-consuming than other types of government we conduct, but I don't think it's too much to ask residents in towns that still have a town meeting to participate.

You can fulfill the legal obligation and put 35 kids in a classroom. But we want to do a good job. But if this is what the town wants, we can certainly do that.

You can expect camera crews and that it's going to be an historical election both in terms of the town and that of the national immigration issue. I welcome the attention to the issues, but I'm dismayed that it has been this emotional.

You can buy rates down by using cash on reserve, ... Although in 23 years, I have only seen one other town do it.

You can be on one side of town in a metro area, and it would take you more than 48 minutes to get from one side to the other.

We continue to receive tremendous interest from retailers and restaurants to locate at Gulf Coast Town Center.

We'll be playing new stuff on Monday. It sounds like Mow town with other things mixed in.

We'll be performing songs I couldn't get out of town without playing, as well as stuff you've never heard before. It's music that will make people happy.

We were lugging it to the back of my car. Now, it's all built in to the town system.

When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

When I travel throughout the town, what I'm hearing from residents far and wide is that the most pressing issue facing the town is corruption,

We put our heads together and thought about what Sylvia could do that the town didn't have, so we opened this little herb shop on Main Street,

We have to shift our thinking a little, too. We have to make people in town now more aware of what we are and where we are and make it more of a community event.

We're both independent, so we complement each other in a good way, ... It's fun to be out on the town with her, but when we're alone, that's when it's really great.

We have to redo the agreement, take their names off and sign off with the town of Greenwich.

We have to promote the theater more to generate ticket sales. We want to be able to break even as a theater. We need to generate awareness that First Street Playhouse exists. There are people in town that still don't know we exist.

You all represent a beautiful town we feel is going to be negatively impacted. If we can get the big dogs barking, it will validate this process.

We really wanted a town that was small. We love rural areas.

We are trying to be extremely responsive to all the counties involved and thought we'd come right here to our home town and see how they're doing. They've had a couple of issues and today they've done really well while we're here.

We are told a lot of high-tech companies are interested in putting offices or allowing people to live in a certain town only if you have that capability. I think attracting high-tech industry is going to be our future. That's a first step we have to have.

Well they're frustrated and I can understand that. We're frustrated. People are asking me around town 'What are you going to do?' Well, if I knew that, I'd be writing books and journals, I wouldn't be coaching. If I knew how to snap people out of these doldrums, I'd be making a lot more money. We're doing all we can do right now.

When you're looking at someone at the lower end, you're sometimes looking at parents who are working two jobs, maybe three. Time is limited, and transportation. You can't just get up and drive your student across town to school.

We hate to see the town without a grocery store. But, we're done.

We have a friend in town who's from Scotland and we were thinking of doing a Omaha/Glasgow band cooperation, which would be super fun.

We have a lot of historical sites in town for people to see. We think this will bring even more traffic in through town.

We wanted to hold a nonpartisan rally to show a good portion of the town supports a quality education and wants a chance to vote on the budget before it's cut further.

We've got some things started I'd like to see completed. A lot of it is infrastructure in town I'd like to see upgraded.

We've had many, many positive reactions ? surprisingly positive. The emails are coming from Alberta, from Toronto. Here is one from Environment Canada. I've had many telephone calls. My wife, she has been out in town today and she's got positive reactions.

We've lived here for 20 years, so it's about time, ... Seriously, it's a great honor and it's a good way for us to promote the arts in Fairfield County, and promote the town of Fairfield in particular Without art, we're just another white bread community. These people who are working are mostly volunteers and it's nice that they're doing that instead of just being another person at the soccer field.

We have been working on the details for the last several months for the first phase of a walkway that will more or less parallel Town Branch, ... We have an architect firm working on the design of the walkways now.