Department spokesman Guillermo Cole stated that " It's the best it's been in the lifetime for virtually every resident in this county … We've seen a steady decrease in pollution levels over the past decade and certainly over the past 20, 30, 40, 50 years or more.

In the past, the group worked on a fireworks policy and an economic development plan for the county.

Cortland County is a Republican leaning county but Democrats have come very close to winning it in the past.

The primary geographic feature of the county is Niagara Falls, the riverbed of which has eroded seven miles south over the past 12, 000 years since the last Ice Age.

In the past few years the county has seen a housing boom due to its proximity to Lake Oconee as well as major employment centers such as Atlanta, Athens, and Macon.

In times past, the distinction between a Count and a marquess was that a marquess's land, called a march, was on the border of the country, while a count's land, called a county, often wasn't.

In terms of national government, Stirling forms part of county constituency of Stirling constituency of the House of Commons, electing one Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons of the parliament of the United Kingdom by first past the post system.

Madison County's largest river is the French Broad River, which flows north-northwest through the county, first past the county seat of Marshall, then past the resort town of Hot Springs.

Portions of the county extend past the Missouri River, which is otherwise its border with the state of Missouri.

Due to the convenience of the major expressways previously mentioned, Livingston County has been the fastest growing county in the state for the past decade and also through the 1970s.

In the recent past, it was common to see machines such as the " Big Brother " Power Shovel ( pictured on the right ) throughout the county.

Evidence provided by the Defendants that Newport is considered a county seat or one of two county seats by historians, encyclopedias and government agencies is based upon practical realities of how county government and the court system have functioned, pursuant to law, in Campbell County for the past 150 years.

The northwestern boundary of Starke County is defined by the Kankakee River ; the Yellow River, a tributary of the Kankakee, flows through the central part of the county, past Knox.

The Yellow River flows through northern, central, and western portions of Marshall County, past Plymouth ; the Tippecanoe River flows through the southeastern part of the county.

Forsyth County gained national media attention in the 1980s because of a series of civil rights demonstrations and counter demonstrations that began as an attempt to show that the county had moved past a history of extreme racism.

Del Norte is a quaint town with a focus on its historic past ; it is the county seat, home to the Rio Grande County Museum, and maintains a historic façade in its main street.

Other episode plots in this season included: a prominent citizen being murdered due to sexual abuse in his family ; Virgil ’ s ex-partner and Althea ’ s ex-lover coming back to Sparta and being exposed as a murderer ; Chief Gillespie having to confront the legacy of his own bigoted past when he's duty-bound to arrest a close, lifelong friend — who is also the sheriff of the neighboring county — for committing a racially-motivated murder in his jail ; Bubba getting caught up in a love triangle ; Althea ’ s niece visiting from Philadelphia ; Virgil and Althea going to an all-White church ; Joanne being stalked by a murderous ex-con, which eventually exposes that she had been a prostitute out of necessity in a different city, long ago ; the arrest of councilwoman White ’ s son ; Chief Gillespie witnessing, and being deeply affected by, an execution ; a plant strike that leads to murder ; Bubba being accused of rape ; and, a manhunt for a drunk driver who killed three of Sparta's most popular high school cheerleaders, and crippled a fourth.

A county constituency of the same name was established by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 for the 1885 general election, electing one MP by the first past the post voting system.

The day following the election a sheriff's posse left the city for Manton by special train to seize the county records.

In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

One day in 1965, later called the Great Lesson of Yamoussoukro, he visited the plantations with the leaders of the county, inviting them to transpose to their own villages the efforts and agricultural achievements of the region.

A significant number of people commute to the city every day, mostly from the surrounding Ilfov county, however official statistics regarding their numbers do not exist.

The county day, called Sussex Day, is celebrated on 16 June, the same day as the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint, whose shrine at Chichester Cathedral was an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.

This region was long influenced by the O ' Rourke family of Dromahair, whose heraldic lion occupies the official county shield to this day.

He named his dynasty after the state of Jin of the Spring and Autumn Period that once ruled the Sima clan's home county of Wen in Henei ( present day Wen County, Henan ).

Archaeological finds in the county of Møre og Romsdal have been dated to 9, 200 BC and are probably the remains of settlers from Doggerland, an area now submerged in the North Sea, but at the time a landbridge that connected the present day British Isles with Jutland.

Nearly 100 years later the first colonization began as Richfield, Utah was established within the present day county boundaries.

Webbville, a community of land squatters, was located northwest of present day Marianna and was designated as the county seat.

Present day Inyo county has been the historic homeland for thousands of years, of the Mono tribe, Coso people, Timbisha and Kawaiisu Native Americans.

This county, in contemporary time, is famous for its UNESCO ancient city walls and ancient China's equivalent of modern day Wall Street for its financial importance in history.

Although modern Gorgan is only a city and county ( sharing the same name ), ancient Hyrcania was the name of a greater region on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea ( encompassing all of the present day Golestan province, as well as some eastern parts of the Mazandaran province, and some southern parts of the present day Republic of Turkmenistan ).

In 1769 a movement started to move the county seat from Lewes to the area then known as Cross Roads, the present day site of Milton.

On December 18, 1837, Sam Houston signed an act incorporating the town of Mina and, on the same day, changing the name of the county and town of Mina to Bastrop.

The present day county was created at statehood in 1907.

On this day the first newspaper of the county appeared, the Arapaho Arrow.

With twenty-five freight trains a day, Mecklenburg is a freight railroad transportation center, largely due to its place on the NS main line between Washington and Atlanta and the large volumes of freight moving in and out of the county via truck.

Following the Civil War, the county government ( that remains to this day ) reformed under the leadership of the legendary S. Riggs for her contribution to the serf / landowner mentality.

That would later change as the county would change to a democratic stronghold from the 1960s to present day.

The county is named for United States President Warren G. Harding, and was created ( from part of Union County and part of Mora County ) on the day of his inauguration as President on March 4, 1921.

Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.

It recognizes the fact that what helps one county helps its neighbors and that by banding together in an area-wide effort better results can be accomplished than through the go-it-alone approach.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

The procedure for determining the amounts of money to be spent by county colleges and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The report, culminating a year long study of the ADC program in Cook county by a New York City welfare consulting firm, listed 10 long range recommendations designed to reduce the soaring ADC case load.

It is the only county in the state so far this month reporting a possible shortage in GA category, for which emergency allotment can be given by the state if necessary.

Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.

A large, well-stocked library, surrounded in a county by smaller ones, may feel that the demands on its resources are likely to be too great.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

Title II prohibits disability discrimination by all public entities at the local ( i. e. school district, municipal, city, county ) and state level.

Johnson was critical of the Tennessee common school system and suggested funding be increased via taxes, either statewide or county by county – a mixture of the two was passed.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

* California Penal Code Section 158: " Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings, and is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($ 1, 000 ).