Local activities, attractions, and its location near rivers, lakes, and Lake Michigan, plus forests, make it a four season destination.

To reduce the loss of life within the Irish Search and Rescue Region and on rivers, lakes and waterways and to protect the quality of the marine environment within the Irish Pollution Responsibility Zone, Harbours and Maritime Local Authority areas and to preserve property.

Local observers have noted with humour that unlike communities with a similar name such as Stratford, Ontario or Stratford, Australia which are named after Stratford-upon-Avon and are situated upon rivers that derive their name from the River Avon, the town of Stratford, Prince Edward Island should be named " Stratford-upon-Hillsborough ".

Local authorities check that water entering rivers meets minimum standards.

These functions in relation to other rivers ( defined as ordinary watercourses ) in England and Wales are undertaken by Local Authorities or internal drainage boards.

Local segments of the Eastern Continental Divide usually pass within a few miles of the Allegheny Front, and in many places coincide with it ; this divide between waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico separates the westward-flowing Ohio River watershed from the eastward-flowing watersheds of the Susquehanna, Potomac, and James rivers.

Local mill owners feared the canal would take water from the rivers and streams that powered their mills, and succeeded in defeating the first two attempts to obtain an act to authorise building the canal.

Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),

( Local and state governments also aided the financing, although the City and County of San Francisco did not do so willingly.

Local pottery rarely attained the standards of the Gaulish industries although the Castor ware of the Nene Valley was able to withstand comparison with the imports.

Local roadways, although showing signs of increasing congestion due to increasing population, are relatively easy to travel via a variety of means.

Local rivals of the Harriers were traditionally Worcester City and Bromsgrove Rovers, and in recent years also Cheltenham Town and Hereford United, although as of 2009 both Cheltenham and Hereford are in divisions above Kidderminster.

Local residents often call it " the abbey ", although the present cathedral represents only the church of the old Benedictine abbey.

Local legends of the city of Pontevedra ( Galicia ) relate the foundation of this city to Teucer ( Teucro ), although this seems to be based more on the suspicions that Greek traders might have arrived to that area in ancient times-hence introducing a number of Greek stories-and not historical facts.

It was originally created as an administrative county council on 1 April 1974 under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972, and covered approximately the same geographic extent as the ancient Principality of Deheubarth, although excluding the Gower Peninsula and the area west of the River Tawe.

The two became a single local authority district in 1975, before Scottish Local Government reorganisation in the 1990s re-integrated them with Kirkintilloch and Bishopbriggs to form the East Dunbartonshire administrative area, although transport and social networks link the town much more closely with Glasgow itself.

The city is administered by a Borough Council and a Mayor which is a level below that of city council in the Local government of the state although the Local Government Act 2001 allows for " the continued use of the description city ".

The Local Government Act 1972 left the boundaries mostly untouched, although part of it, in Basildon New Town, was ceded to the Basildon district and the district gained borough status.

Local citizens reported that Randall received over of rain in a single day during the deluge, although official precipitation data for the town do not exist.

The PC clone market did not want to pay royalties to IBM in order to use this new technology, and for desktop machines vendors of PC-compatibles stayed largely with the 16-bit AT bus, ( embraced and renamed as ISA to avoid IBM's " AT " trademark ) and manual configuration, although the VESA Local Bus was briefly popular for Intel ' 486 machines.

Situated in the Lower Aire Valley, and forming part of Fairburn & Newton Ings SSSI, RSPB Fairburn Ings is a Local Nature Reserve ( LNR ), with a focus mainly on wildfowl and waders, although many other birds can be seen.

Local radio and television stations are shared with Oxford, although ITV retains a ‘ news gathering ’ centre in the town, formerly a broadcasting studio, for ITV Meridian.

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.

Local anesthesia is any technique to induce the absence of sensation in part of the body, generally for the aim of inducing local analgesia, that is, local insensitivity to pain, although other local senses may be affected as well.

Empowered by the Dutch Elm Disease ( Local Authorities ) ( Amendment ) Order 1988, local authorities may order the destruction of any infected trees or timber, although in practice they usually do it themselves, successfully reducing the numbers of elm bark beetle Scolytus spp., the vector of elm disease.

And although the AFL – CIO constitution permits the federation to charter Directly Affiliated Local Unions, the AFL – CIO has largely refused to charter such unions since the 1970s.

The first in the 1990s to determine re-opening passenger traffic from Bramley to Guildford would be economically viable, which although inconclusive, Waverley Borough Council protected the line from development in its Local Plan.

However, commission areas were replaced with Local Justice Areas by the Courts Act 2003, meaning magistrates no longer need to live within, although, in practice, many still do.

Local roads include the A355 which connects Amersham and Slough via Beaconsfield, although this has very heavy traffic in peak times.

Local notable families seem to have had divided loyalties, although the War ended with great rejoicings outside the " Limes " in Sherrard Street, home of Sir Henry Hudson.

The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the Local Group, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec.

A small part in the north-west is located in the Local Government Area of the City of Holroyd.

Local anesthetic injections into the nerves or sensitive areas of the stump may relieve pain for days, weeks or, sometimes permanently, despite the drug wearing off in a matter of hours ; and small injections of hypertonic saline into the soft tissue between vertebrae produces local pain that radiates into the phantom limb for ten minutes or so and may be followed by hours, weeks or even longer of partial or total relief from phantom pain.

Local experts have mentioned that moving forward in such a small area, is a big tool to in executing and rolling out macro plans smoothly.

Apparent Sidereal Time ( Local or at Greenwich ) differs from Mean Sidereal Time ( for the same locality and moment ) by the Equation of the Equinoxes: This is a small difference in Right Ascension R. A. () ( parallel to the equator ), not exceeding about +/- 1. 2 seconds of time, due to nutation, the complex ' nodding ' motion of the Earth's polar axis of rotation.

The Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1929 divided burghs into two classes from 1930: large burghs, which were to gain extra powers from the county council, and small burghs which lost many of their responsibilities.

Local landowner John Talbot, fought at the Battle of Crécy, and bred the Talbot dog, a breed of small white dog, an ancestor of the modern Beagle.

Local currencies also tend to operate in relatively small geographic regions and encourage recycling and reducing the amount of carbon emissions from the transportation and manufacture of goods.

In the Local Elections of 2007 this contributed to the overwhelming victory of a small bypass pressure group, over the traditional political parties.

The Uganda People's Defence Force has recruited small numbers of children into its forces as young as 13, including Local Defense Units.

# Local people set up an organization to trade between themselves, often paying a small membership fee to cover administration costs

The change of character of Wimbledon from village to small town was recognised in 1894 when, under the Local Government Act 1894, it formed the Wimbledon Urban District with an elected council.

Local commerce is composed of mostly small family-owned businesses, with a high concentration of fast food and used automobiles.

Local residents travel between the first several lakes using small boats or personal watercraft.

Local resident Lyle Estill, president of a Pittsboro company named Piedmont Biofuels, which accepts the PLENTY, told USA Today that: " We're a wiped-out small town in America.

* William Henry Harrison High School is located in Harrison, the school is part of the Southwest Local School District, which encompasses Harrison Township, Crosby Township, and Whitewater Township in Hamilton County as well as a small section of Morgan Township in southwest Butler County.

Local companies manufacture brakes, small electric motors, aftermarket auto parts, metal doors, rubber parts and school laboratory furniture.

Local elementary schools often raise small numbers of salmon eggs that are spawned in the hatchery and release them into the creeks as part of their science curriculum on the salmon life cycle.

Local farm goods and timber sales were all required to pass through merchants at either a small seaport or a market town prior to export.

After a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London, almost all of the original area was incorporated into an enlarged Greater London in 1965, with small parts transferred to neighbouring Hertfordshire and Surrey.

Local historian John Goodchild said, " The place was essentially one of small mines and small mills ".

Local Stafford businessmen formed the The Izaak Walton Cottage Trust to establish a small museum dedicated to the famous writer.

Local resident, Neville Skewes opened a small store on Mount Bundey Road ( now the Arnhem Highway ) in 1967.