No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

St. Louis county under its present leadership also has largely closed its eyes to the need for governmental reform, and permitted parochial interests to take priority over area-wide interests.

-- After a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new school superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in the `` coolest election I ever saw in this county ''.

-- The Anne Arundel county school superintendent has asked that the Board of Education return to the practice of recording its proceedings mechanically so that there will be no more question about who said what.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

In addition to the interlibrary loan service and the children's program, headquarters has a public relations director who seeks to get wider grassroots support for quality library service in the county ; ;

This system has three tiers, with 12 county administrative courts ( förvaltningsrätt ) as the first tier, four administrative courts of appeal ( kammarrätt ) as the second tier, and the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden ( Regeringsrätten ) as the third tier.

Global pharmaceuticals company GSK has a significant presence in Montrose in the north of the county.

It has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California ; Caceres, Spain ; and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

Paramus in Bergen County, where three of the four major malls are located, has even more restrictive blue laws than the county itself, banning all type of work on Sundays except in grocery stores, restaurants, and other entertainment venues.

Domestically speaking, the county has a nationwide cellular telephone system and an extensive network of telephone cables.

The School also has one of the largest sixth forms in the county.

The area of the county no longer has a single local authority ; local government is now split between three authorities.

The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86, 900.

The eastern half of the county was covered by glaciers during the Ice Age and has a superficial layer of glacial boulder clays.

The word " county " has come to be used in different senses for different purposes.

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

The county board of commissioners controls the budget but has only limited authority to make laws or ordinances.

According to the 2000 census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 97. 63 %) is land and ( or 2. 37 %) is water.

He has also played county cricket in England, mainly for Lancashire ( 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2007 ) where he appeared in twenty-eight first-class games for the club.

Nashville has a consolidated city – county government which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system.

This was previously thought to lie in the area around Perth and the southern Strathearn, whereas recent work has convinced those working in the field that Moray ( a name referring to a very much larger area in the High Middle Ages than the county of Moray ), was the core of Fortriu.

It includes a raise in the county minimum wage, creation of several new jobs at the executive level, financing of beefed-up industrial development efforts, and increased expenditures for essential services such as health and welfare, fire protection, sanitation and road maintenance.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

Namibia maintained a battalion of about 800 personnel in Grand Cape Mount county for several years, for most of the period part of UNMIL Sector 2, headquartered at Tubmanburg.

The more visited eastern part of the park is managed by Narok County Council and the western part, known as the Mara Triangle, by the Trans-Mara county council, which is contracting management to the Mara Conservancy, a local nonprofit organization formed by the local Maasai that contains several anti-poaching units.

Being an Exact and True account ( by way of Journal ) of the various actions of infernal Spirits or ( Devils Incarnate ) Witches or both: and the great Disturbance and Amazement they gave to George Walton's family at a place called Great Island in the county of New Hampshire in New England, chiefly in throwing about ( by an Invisible hand ) Stones, Bricks, and Brick-Bats of all sizes, with several other things, as Hammers, Mauls, Iron-Crows, Spits, and other Utensils, as came into their Hellish minds, and this for space of a quarter of a year.

The county is home to several endangered species including the San Francisco garter snake, the Mission blue butterfly and the San Bruno elfin butterfly, all of which are endemic to San Mateo County.

In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a special session of Ohio's Legislature on June 8, 1835 to pass several more controversial acts, including establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible abduction of Ohio citizens from the area and a budget of $ 300, 000 to implement the legislation.

The county is a subdivision of the state, sometimes ( but not always ) containing two or more townships and several villages.

In several other cases, such as Buckinghamshire, the town which came to be accepted as the county town is different from that after which the shire is named.

In several instances throughout the nation, a municipality has merged with a county into one jurisdiction so the county seat is coextensive with the county.

The county was composed of several parishes, also headed by an elder.

As a result, Bo and Luke are not allowed to carry firearms ( instead, they often use compound bows, sometimes with arrows tipped with dynamite ) or to leave Hazzard County, although the exact details of their probation terms vary from episode to episode: sometimes it is implied that they would be jailed for merely crossing the county line ; on other occasions, it is shown that they may leave Hazzard as long as they are back within a certain time limit ; several other technicalities of their probation also came into play at various times.

In each Han county was several districts, each overseen by a chief of police.

A county was divided into several districts, the latter composed of a group of hamlets, each containing about a hundred families.

The county seat is Frederick, which was home to several celebrated historical figures like Francis Scott Key, Thomas Johnson ( governor ), Roger B. Taney, and Barbara Fritchie.

The county was to suffer several bombings and at least two assassinations.

There are several rugby teams in the county.

In the valley is the only river in the county, the Tualatin River, the Tualatin Plains, and several small hills.

For several years, Takoma Park lobbied the State of Maryland for legislation allowing county boundaries to be adjusted.

After some ten days in the county and securing several towns for Queen Jane, he took King's Lynn and proclaimed her on the market-place.

This was a much larger area than the present Clinton County, including several other counties or county parts of the present New York State.

Ski country runs through Cattaraugus County ; two ski resorts, popular with Canadians, lie in the town of Ellicottville ; in addition, several snowmobile trails cross the county, including the Pat McGee Trail, a flagship for the county's trail system, and the North Country Trail.

The county of Glamorgan comprised several distinct regions: the industrial valleys, the agricultural Vale of Glamorgan and the scenic Gower Peninsula.