Local public BDSM communities often have strong ties with distant BDSM communities, with popular educators traveling widely ; large events attracting attendees from wide areas ( and occasionally internationally ); popular speakers, authors, or players gaining relative celebratory status ; and websites attracting over a million members.

Local events were also often commemorated in pub signs.

Roanoke's festivals and cultural events include the Chili Cook-Off, Festival in the Park, Local Colors Festival, Henry Street Festival, Big Lick Blues Festival, Strawberry Festival, and the large red, white, and blue illuminated Mill Mountain Star ( formerly illuminated in red following drunk driving fatalities in the Roanoke Valley ; temporarily illuminated in white on April 22, 2007 in remembrance of the Virginia Tech Massacre of April 16, 2007 ) on Mill Mountain, which is visible from many points in the city and surrounding valley.

In 2002, a partnership between Thurrock Council, Thurrock Heritage Forum and the Thurrock Local History Society began an initiative to place heritage plaques marking the famous people, events and organisations associated with Thurrock.

Additional weekly sections appear on weekdays: Health & Science on Tuesday, Food on Wednesday, Local Living ( home and garden ) on Thursday, and Weekend, with details about upcoming events in the local area, on Friday.

Local events include the Choctaw County Heritage Festival, which takes place usually between May 30 and June 3.

Local groups parade down Old Lancaster Pike, neighborhoods compete in different athletic events, and there is a fireworks display in the evening in Swift Park.

Local print media include the News-Sun, a newspaper published on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and Highlands Today, a daily local supplement to The Tampa Tribune that covers newsworthy events in Highlands County.

Local print media include the News-Sun, a newspaper published on Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and Highlands Today, a daily local supplement to The Tampa Tribune that covers newsworthy events in Highlands County.

* Local activities and events

The " Freedom Fest " consists of a Parade, and a Local Car Show, quoted as " Not too Shabby " from a KMOV News reporter, and many other regular carnival events.

Ridgewood also has its own daily news website at Ridgewood. patch. com, which provides news, events, announcements and Local Voices.

Local shoppers, such as The Key and US newspapers provide Nazareth with a source for local advertising and news on community events.

Local businesses and vendors set up booths for various seafood based events.

Local newspapers such as The CentreView and the Fairfax Times now record local events and happenings in the community and surrounding communities such as Clifton.

Local tradition holds that Vortigern's wise men used to meet here to discuss the great events of their times.

Local CAIR chapters such as the Michigan chapter organized a " Remember Through Service " campaign which was a video and billboard media campaign which featured positive representations of Muslim-Americans including a Muslim first responder during the September 11th World Trade Center events.

Local tradition held that the events took place in the vicinity of Newark Castle, although Scott himself believed that the old tower at Hangingshaw, a seat of the Philiphaugh family near Yarrowford, was the correct location.

The Quarr Local Nature Reserve at the northern end of the town makes use of an old quarry and landfill site, Sherborne Area Partnership oversees a successful Environment Forum, and in 2009 Sherborne became an official Transition Town, running a number of projects and events as a community response to climate change and peak oil.

Local news on that day usually has footage from these events.

Local star parties may be one night affairs, but larger events can last up to a week or longer and attract hundreds or even thousands of participants.

Local committees, together with the council started to use the pedestrianisation of the town centre to its advantage, culminating in several fairs including Continental Markets, Celtic Festivals, a small Mardi-Gras and seasonal markets and events.

The Village Hall hosts events from the organisations, of the local villages ( Horticultural Society, Local History Group, Commons Preservation Society, Thursday Club ) as well as Cholesbury Teas on Sundays during Summer months.

Local organizations such as the American University in Dubai Sound Society, Dubai Lime, Blacksheep, Ignite Events, Metality UAE, Ampulance, The Fridge, Shouscene ?, Metal Asylum, Rock Nation and Project E are key players in moving the music scene forward, in terms of organizing and promoting concerts and bands, as well as providing online discussion areas for local residents wishing to know more about upcoming events.

Local jobs can be seen and counted, while opportunities elsewhere are regarded as more hypothetical.

Local school districts are hard pressed financially and unenthusiastic about vocational training.

Local thickenings ( often called warts ) are common, such as those found on toads.

Local affiliates of the ACLU are active in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

Local printers are also increasingly taking over the process of photofinishing as digital photo printers become commonplace.

Local congregations have far-reaching powers concerning " controversial " matters ( such as whether or not women are admitted as members of the congregation's consistory or admittance to holy communion ).

Local meetings of hierarchs have been called " pan-Orthodox ", but these have invariably been simply meetings of local hierarchs of whatever Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions are party to a specific local matter.

Local congregations ( branches, wards, and stakes ) have de jure boundaries by which members are allocated, and membership records are centralized.

Local bus services are provided by Emsworth & District, which operate services to Havant and Chichester.

Local bus services inside cities and towns are often tightly regulated by the councils.

The national championship winners from the Top-4 ranked nations receive automatic qualification, while the remaining two spots are made up by a team nominated by the Local Event organiser and the winner of the previous year's EuroFloorball Cup.

Local terms for the procedure include tahara in Egypt ; tahur in Sudan ; and bolokoli in Mali, which Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia write are words synonymous with purification.

Local trains however are subsidised by the German states, which pay the operating companies to run these trains.

In the Local Group, the Milky Way and M31 ( the Andromeda Galaxy ) are gravitationally bound, and currently approaching each other at high speed.

* Local topocentric coordinates are azimuth ( direction angle within the plane of the horizon ) and elevation angle ( or zenith angle ) and distance.

Local preparations for use in otolaryngology often contain pharmacologic equivalents of adrenaline, while steroid and vitamin D creams are used extensively in dermatological practice.

Local autobahns are A 352 ( a short cut between A7 ( north ) and A2 ( west ), also known as the airport autobahn because it passes Hanover Airport ) and the A 37.

The Regions are administered by Regional Authorities which were established by the Local Government Act 1991 and came into existence in 1994.

The boundaries of the areas and the number of councillors assigned are fixed from time to time by order of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, following a report by the Local Government Commission, and based on population changes recorded in the census.

Also, some address ranges are considered special, such as link-local addresses for use on the local link only, Unique Local addresses ( ULA ) as described in RFC 4193, and solicited-node multicast addresses used in the Neighbor Discovery Protocol.

Local timber merchants are harvesting scarce species of rosewood trees from protected rainforests within Marojejy National Park and exporting the wood to China for the production of luxury furniture and musical instruments.

The inhabitants who are registered elect the Council every three years, as voters in the Local Councils ' Electoral Register.

Local councils are responsible for the general upkeep and embellishment of the locality, local wardens, and refuse collection, and carry out general administrative duties for the central government such as collection of government rents and funds, and answering government-related public inquiries.