The uniform fiscal year brings the town's fiscal year into line with that of the schools, which expend the largest share of local disbursements.

Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.

They came not just to buy or sell at the produce market but also to eat at the town's renowned restaurants and afterwards perhaps to watch a pelota game at the local court.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

His father was primarily a farmer though he was also deacon of the local Congregational church, captain of the town's militia, and a founder of a local book society — a precursor to the public library.

Each town has a central taxi terminal usually within walking distance of the town's central plaza where taxis are stationed, and they provide transportation through local and islandwide routes.

The Wyre was the town's first local commercial radio station and began broadcasting on 12 September 2005 from studios in Kidderminster.

Despite this the town's ANC-run local government and most local residents still refer to the town as Mafikeng both informally and formally.

Charters from the period refer to the town's trade in iron, and to forges making use of local ore and charcoal.

In 1955 Caernarfon was in the running for the title of Capital of Wales on historical grounds but the town's campaign was heavily defeated in a ballot of Welsh local authorities, with 11 votes compared to Cardiff's 136.

On the initiative of the town's mayor, Michael Unterguggenberger, the local government printed 32, 000 in labor certificates which carried a negative 1 % monthly interest rate and could be converted into schillings at 98 % of face value.

However, the population of the Borough of Reading was estimated as 142, 800 in 2006 by the Office of National Statistics, as a number of the town's large eastern and southern suburbs ( such as Earley and Woodley ) lie within neighbouring local authorities.

The other field, commonly referred to as The Sports Ground, is the home to Bideford AFC, the town's main local football club.

Installed in Orléans and along the Loire, they were unruly ( killing the town's senators when they felt they had been paid too slowly or too little ) and resented by the local inhabitants.

Some modern scholars have found in the surviving poetry evidence that Ibycus might have spent time at Sicyon before journeying to Samos — mythological references indicate local knowledge of Sicyon and could even point to the town's alliance with Sparta against Argos and Athens.

This started the so-called Whiskey Rebellion when the farmers who depended on whiskey income refused to pay and drove off a local town's marshal.

It is also known as the William A. Koch Memorial Highway, named for the local developer who pushed much of the town's development, as assisted the creation of nearby Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial.

The town's history is poorly recorded and is held mostly by local people and their stories of the past.

FC Viktoria Frankfurt is the town's local football team.

The hotel was occupied not only by the representatives of the town's merchant classes and the local squirearchy, but by sixty or more armed soldiers.

In 1785 he and a local man Samuel Simon Saxon re-roofed the town's church for 600 Guineas.

On the morning of July 10, 1941, by the order of mayor Marian Karolak and the town's German gendarmerie, a group of Polish men from around Jedwabne and neighboring settlements was assembled, who then rounded up the local Jews as well as those seeking refuge from nearby towns and villages such as Wizna and Kolno.

During the next two years, school was held in local church buildings, the town's former bank building, and the U. S. Post Office building located near the railroad.

In Steinbeck's book Sweet Thursday, a chapter is dedicated to describing a ( probably fictional ) rivalry that arose among the town's residents over the game of roque.

A chapter in John Steinbeck's novel Sweet Thursday also describes a rivalry that arose among the town's residents over the game.

Grantville, led by Mike Stearns, president of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America ( UMWA ), must cope with the town's space-time dislocation, the surrounding raging war, language barriers, and numerous social and political issues, including class conflict, witchcraft, feminism, the reformation and the counter-reformation, among many other factors.

The chapter described a reputedly true story: a prostitute in Asbury's childhood in Farmington, Missouri, nicknamed Hatrack because of her angular physique, and a regular churchgoer seeking genuine forgiveness but, shunned by the town's reputed good people, returning to her sinful life.

The area around Pultneyville — a hamlet on the town's Lake Ontario shore – was a frequent meeting ground for local Native Americans.

Webster Park covers 550 acres of the town's land along the Lake Ontario waterfront.

Lake Ontario and the Oswego River help define the town's borders.

The town's north border is Lake Ontario, and the east town line is Cayuga County.

The town's name rhymes with the placename Cataraqui, which appears in the Cataraqui River, the Little Cataraqui Creek, and the Cataraqui Cemetery in nearby Kingston, Ontario.

The Festival's roots can be traced to 1962 when Ontario lawyer and playwright Brian Doherty staged a summertime " Salute to Shaw " in the town's courthouse, a venue later known as the Courthouse Theatre.

The Victorian streetscape stands as a testament to the town's rich history and all the image and influences that make rural Ontario and its hierarchy of small urban centres so unique.

This appointment occurred just before a serious outbreak of E. coli poisoning in Walkerton, Ontario, in which several people died following the contamination of the town's water supply.

A prosperous hardware merchant in Sudbury, Ontario, he was the first president of the town's board of trade and later served as mayor of the town in 1897, 1898 and 1902 after winning a council seat in 1896.

Along with local businessman William McVittie, he subsequently invested in the Wahnapitae Power Company, which was contracted to provide the town's hydroelectricity services until it was sold to the Hydroelectric Power Commission of Ontario in 1929.

A native of Port Arthur, Ontario, Wilson did not even know how to skate when he joined the town's church league in 1914.

Nevertheless, Bacup's historic character, culture and festivities have encouraged the town's suburbanisation and redevelopment as a commuter town ; English Heritage has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England, and its town centre is designated as a conservation area for its special architectural qualities.

The beauty of the town's cultural inheritance, which has some Islamic influence, has been recognised by UNESCO, which includes four churches in the World Heritage Site Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon, notably the town's ornate cathedral in the Mudéjar style.

The town's museum, the MonDak Heritage Center, was founded in 1967.

The Richmond Hill Heritage Centre serves as a museum of the town's history.

Undoubtedly the oldest building on the Quayside, St Mary's has now re-opened to the public as the town's first heritage centre, Gateshead Heritage @ St Mary's.

The town's historic attractions include Nenagh Castle, the Heritage Centre and the ruined Franciscan abbey.

The south of the town centre also underwent major regeneration, with the new civic centre being built and the town's famous Water Gardens being redeveloped, a landscape listed by English Heritage.

As well as the town's Country Park, The North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, formerly the Motherwell Heritage Centre on High Road, situated next to the town's railway station, is a building that displays the history of Motherwell from the Roman era.

The Ammonite-design streetlamp s reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage site.

While Stone Town was included in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites in 2000, this designation does not provide complete protection for the town's heritage.

On 30 March 2006 the town and its setting were listed on the NSW State Heritage Register, following a period of unpleasant dispute between those wishing to preserve the town's charm and those wishing to develop it.

The glory days of fishing in the town are remembered at the town's Fishing Heritage Centre ( previously the National Fishing Heritage Centre ) where the preserved trawler Ross Tiger provides a unique glimpse into the lost lives of the 1950s trawlerman.

The town's annual Heritage Day is held during this time.

There is a high visitation rate by tourists to view the ' National Missile Park ' in the centre of town ( which features aircraft, rockets, bombs and missiles covering the full period of the Range's operations ), the ' Woomera Heritage Centre ' ( which features an introductory audio visual presentation and an interpretive gallery that tells the story of this historic site ), and the ' Community Museum ' that is maintained by the town's volunteer community board and which is located within the missile park precinct.

Glimpses of the town's intriguing past are to be found in photographs and artefacts available for viewing at the Heritage Centre, Blackman ’ s Yard, Market Street, which is run by members of the Hailsham Historical and Natural History Society.

The " Tambo Heritage Trail " includes 17 buildings within the town's precinct of historical importance.

The town's annual fiesta patronal takes place in late January each year and is famous for its dances, including one that recreates a legendary battle between the Achi and the K ' iche Maya, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Cultural monument, known as The Rabinal Achí.

The arrival of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the world's first passenger railway, led to the town's expansion along the route of the track linking those two cities ; as of 2009 Salford City Council is bidding for the railway to be included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Heritage sites are generally protected by the local town's protection agency but, for objects that are nationally or internationally protected, sometimes more than one agency is involved in their protection.