Despite an annual rainfall of, the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation ( CUC ), the local government-run water utility company on Saipan, is unable to deliver 24-hour-a-day potable water to its customers in certain areas.

200pxA poorhouse or workhouse was a government-run facility in the past for the support and housing of dependent or needy persons, typically run by a local government entity such as a county or municipality.

Research facilities must be registered, and include state and local government-run research laboratories, universities, and colleges, diagnostic laboratories, and pharmaceutical firms.

Additionally, M ' Sila was the location of the first village constructed as part of a government-run program to transition nomadic Algerians to sedentary life using local materials.

Environmental organizations can be global, regional, national or local ; they can be government-run or private ( NGO ).

However, many government-run schools continue to operate on the premise of the local village temple.

The local high school is the government-run Jamison High School, home of the Jamison Highlanders.

A weekly newspaper reported a local romance: `` and the couple were married last Saturday, thus ending a friendship which began in their schooldays ''.

Lara's father Bunty and one of his older sisters Agnes Cyrus enrolled him in the local Harvard Coaching Clinic at the age of six for weekly coaching sessions on Sundays.

The word bunyip has been used in other Australian contexts, including The Bunyip newspaper as the banner of a local weekly newspaper published in the town of Gawler, South Australia.

The first Christians were, like Jesus, Israelites resident in Roman Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.

By now having become a locally known comics collector and cartoonist, Rosa accepted an offer from the editor of the local newspaper to create a weekly comic strip.

By this date there were finally enough films several minutes long available to fill a programme running for at least half an hour, and which could be changed weekly when the local audience became bored with it.

Benjamin FranklinWhile the society's meetings provided its name and social focus, however, they were relatively unimportant in its activities, and far more activity and communication took place outside the meetings themselves – members local to Birmingham were in almost daily contact, more distant ones in correspondence at least weekly.

In high school, Orbison and some friends formed The Wink Westerners, an informal band that played country standards and Glenn Miller songs at local honky-tonks, and had a weekly radio show on KERB in Kermit.

Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.

Shetland is served by a weekly local newspaper, The Shetland Times and the online Shetland News with radio service being provided by BBC Radio Shetland and the commercial radio station SIBC.

As well, alternative weekly tabloids tend to concentrate on local-or even neighbourhood-level issues, and on local entertainment in the bars and local theatres.

In May 2009, Ghent, Belgium, was reported to be " the first in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week " for environmental reasons, when local authorities decided to implement a " weekly meatless day ".

Eventually, Harding's family moved to Caledonia, Ohio, where his father then acquired The Argus, a local weekly newspaper.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

And sometimes entire families would make a visit to their local rep as part of the weekly routine like going to church, and for the young ones, it became a part of their future appreciation for live " legitimate " theatre.

Benalla has a local newspaper, the Benalla Ensign, which is published weekly.

In addition to the local paddleboats operating cruises are numerous houseboats available for day, weekend or weekly hire.

A weekly food market in the Lewes Market Tower was established in July 2010 by Transition Town Lewes to allow traders to sell local produce.

The Salisbury Journal is the local paid-for weekly newspaper which is available in shops every Thursday, with some home deliveries coming on Wednesday night.

The local free weekly newspaper is the Avon Advertiser, which is delivered to houses in Salisbury and the surrounding area and made by the same company as the Journal.

The movie title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live music festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle as a play on the Hitchcock movie title.

Bideford has three main local newspapers, the North Devon Gazette and the North Devon Journal which are published weekly, and the Bideford Post which is published monthly.

In 1918, the Thule Society bought a local weekly newspaper, the Münchener Beobachter ( Munich Observer ), and changed its name to Münchener Beobachter und Sportblatt ( Munich Observer and Sports Paper ) in an attempt to improve its circulation.

Thompson writes a letter to a local Aspen newspaper informing them that, on Christmas Eve, he was going to use napalm to burn a number of dogs and hopefully any humans they find.

He served as an assistant priest or curate in various parishes and in 1810, published his first poem Winter Evening Thoughts in a local newspaper, followed in 1811 by a collection of moral verse, Cottage Poems.

Other less commonly used nicknames were the " Gridbirds " ( used only by a local newspaper columnist ) or " Cardiac Cards " ( used only to refer to the 1975 team ).

For some decades the banner of the local newspaper featured the verse " Alexandria, Indiana / Home of the Rock Wool / Not on the Nile / But just as worthwhile.

After the attacks, before the release of the FBI pictures of the hijackers, Arab News reported that Haznawi's brother Abdul Rahman had told al-Madinah newspaper that a photograph published by local newspapers bore no resemblance to his brother.

Various local legends were compiled by J. W. Burns in a series of Canadian newspaper articles in the 1920s.

As a child Orwell ( under his real name Eric Blair ) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper.

Due to Anson's absence from the club after 22 years, local newspaper reporters started to refer to the Cubs as the " Orphans ".

It was named after the Roman goddess Ceres, and its opening was announced in the local newspaper, Stiftstidende, in 1856.

That rare type of achievement by a woman prompted one local newspaper to state, " It is a legitimate source of pride to Philadelphia that one of its most cherished institutions has made this innovation.

This led to his creation of the comic strip character Captain Kentucky for the Saturday edition of the local newspaper Louisville Times.

The Daily Record, however, began in 1909 and is the name of the local newspaper today.

Policy on buying and stocking Blyton's books by British public libraries drew attention in newspaper reports from the early 1960s to the end of the 1970s, as local decisions were made by a London borough, Birmingham, Nottingham and other central libraries.

Although Gerry does not seem to have been directly involved in the drafting of the district, the shape of one of the districts ( not far from his home in Essex County ) resembled a salamander, leading a local Federalist newspaper to print a political cartoon calling it a " Gerry-mander ".

In 1923, Wray appeared in her first film at the age of 16, landing a role in a short historical film sponsored by a local newspaper.

While this event has no practical effect, the sautier issues a formal press release and the local newspaper will usually mention the news.

This involves local people making up ' balls ' of chicken wire filled with old newspaper, sticks, rags, and other dry flammable material up to a diameter of 2 feet, each attached to about 3 feet of wire, chain or nonflammable rope.

There were calls for the execution of the " ringleaders " in the major Irish nationalist daily newspaper, the Irish Independent, and local authorities also sought the ringleaders.

He published his early strips in the local social democratic newspaper Arbetarbladet, but became known to a wider audience in 1995, when he started to draw for the Stockholm-based but nationally distributed conservative newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.