Quotes about Towns

That brought us in $1,400 last year, which doesn't go very far. It just seemed, as I sat and looked at these other people in these other towns and what they were able to make, that we'll make 10 times that even in our first year-and just think what that'll be able to do.

Judy Reno

This is an unprecedented event in terms of devastation and scale. It's not like a spill on a river or a beach; you have small channels, canals, towns, levees. Everything here is complicated . . . and it's not a simple environment to assess damage in.

Harry Roberts

I likened it to the Wild West. Back then, if someone stole a horse, rode to the next town, robbed that town's bank and shot the marshal, he would have been hanging from a tree the next day.

Jerry Allred

A waterfront project must fit our town's character.

Kirk Kennedy

That's just been her beat out in that part of the county. There are towns that she reports on that don't exist anymore. It's just the basics. It's like the old quilting-bee kind of news where you just catch up with people through conversations.

Dave Bell

We've seen a steady, quite dramatic decline in a lot of runs, including ones we've had counters on and anecdotal information from towns. Over the past several years there has been a sharp drop. There's always fluctuation but it's been more dramatic than usual.

Phil Brady

Different towns have different crowds. It's pretty quiet in San Fernando. The population is generally poor. People want their kids to see the animals. In more affluent areas, we tend to see more protesters.

Chip Arthurs

If you look at our ERG towns' Strategic School Profiles, you see we are spending less on out-of-district placements than any other school district in our educational reference group.

Chet Bialicki

In order to avoid the sabotage that phony warrant articles potentially could cause in the upcoming voting cycle, I believe it would be in the best interest of the district, our towns and our students to revisit the school board's plan on how to present the new middle school warrant article.

Clark Lindley

The agreement ... was good for the student athletes because they didn't lose any of their season, and it was good for all of the towns the schools are in. They won't suffer by losing the business that comes in when they host games.

Rocky Rees

This is meant to address situations where towns are receiving services and have significantly lower (tax) rates than those with their own police forces. There is a significant cost for these services.

Tom Vincz

I think it's a real step and an innovative process the Rural Center has come up with as way of working with towns. It's a model for how the state can work with a small town.

Greg Bethea

At the time Mr. Schultz was gathering data for his book, Bill Cooper was Town Manager in New Gloucester. Bill's leadership, and that provided by the town's elected and appointed officials and volunteers, contributed to the development of the Tax Increment Financing District that encompasses the campus. The cooperation and support offered by local officials provi.

Bill Cooper

I think people in general just have pride in their high school. It's good for the community -- good for the Twin Towns -- to have things of that nature to get excited about.

Bruce Yaggie

The rural center will invest the $200,000 in the town if it can demonstrate that it's inclusive in its process, innovative and has initiated ideas in a new light. It's important that towns try to get the entire community to buy into the proposed projects.

Art Jackson

If we provide people with an occasion to shop, they will come, whether in the cities or in the small towns.

Kishore Biyani

The town's (financial) commitment certainly helps. There are major things that still need to be done structurally.

Walter Kelly

They are trying to draw the military into a full-scale battle that will cause the destruction of towns and villages. When that happens, you will have 30 to 50 percent of the young men from these places joining MEND.

Dimieari Von Kemedi

It was very kind weather, the number of helicopters we had at our disposal also helped and ... people didn't come down from the mountains and overburden the towns.

Jamie Mcgoldrick

There are always going to be those 'citizens against virtually everything' (CAVEs). But small towns must take chances to grow.

Jack Schultz

[Most of the families are from Mexico, others from Haiti; many of the children were born in far-flung American farming towns and thus are U.S. citizens.] The Haitian and Mexican kids are very distant -- they don't know each other's culture, ... We try to promote harmony.

Kathy Freudenberg

In every town, you can always count on there being an art-house venue. I'm always amazed at just how well little towns can do, because there is still a hungry audience in Middle America that wants to see interesting foreign films.

Marcus Hu

It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and get towns to cooperate.

Jennifer Atkinson

It is designed to be fair to municipalities, both large and small, and I believe it will do that. Candidly, the thinking was not to provide a bonus to towns. The thinking was to provide a bonus to taxpayers.

Robert Genuario

We're not finished with the expenditures for the storm. We're considering what we call polling the towns, which is when we go all night and take the snow out of the village, so that would be more expense.

Dan Ryan

Small towns have a hard time competing and very often they are in competition for a lot of programs and development. By finding the right combination of small communities that can work together, a larger, more clearer voice can be created.

Elissa Marsden

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

Zeev Boim