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He is a Craig's wife who agonizes about tobacco ash on the living room rug and he is a forgetful genius who goes boating with the town baker when dignitaries from the local university have come to call.
This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.
If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??
The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.
Rhode Island law specifies that all real estate is taxable in the town in which it is situated.
Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.
The Smithfield tax assessor, in turn, claims the tax under the provision of law `` and all other tangible personal property situated or being in any town, in or upon any place of storage shall be taxed to such person in the town where said property is situated ''.
Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.
Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.
Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.
For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.
Raymond Vernon reports that residents of East St. Louis have been driving across the Mississippi, through the heart of downtown St. Louis and out to the western suburbs for major shopping, simply because parking is easier at the big branches than it is in the heart of town.
Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.

town and protected
Originally Dartmouth's only wharf was Bayard's Cove, a relatively small but picturesque area protected by a fort at the southern end of the town.
It was this expansion that led to the Second Punic War when Carthage besieged the Roman protected town of Saguntum in 218 BC, igniting a conflict with Rome.
Houses of particular historical significance ( former residences of the famous, for example, or even just very old houses ) may gain a protected status in town planning as examples of built heritage and / or of streetscape values.
By the end of the Saxon period, the port of Hastings had moved eastward near the present town centre in the Priory Stream valley, whose entrance was protected by the White Rock headland ( since demolished ).
Alternatively, the name may derive from the verb na · ṣar, נ ָ צ ַ ר, " watch, guard, keep ," and understood either in the sense of " watchtower " or " guard place ", implying the early town was perched on or near the brow of the hill, or, in the passive sense as ' preserved, protected ' in reference to its secluded position.
Oxford was a secure town, protected by walls and the river Isis, but Stephen led a sudden attack across the river, leading the charge and swimming part of the way.
According to the latest research – for example, by Eduard Jacobs and Walther Grosse – there were no early relations with the Abbey at Corvey ( Weser ) and the abbot there, Warin, instead the town name suggests it was a protected clearance settlement.
In 1648 Colchester was a walled town with a castle and several churches and was protected by the city wall.
While these walls protected the main town, it was not safe to live on the rest of the island until Mediterranean piracy was largely eradicated, which did not truly end until the 19th century.
Ancona was founded by Greek settlers from Syracuse about 387 BC, who gave it its name: Ancona is a very slightly modified transliteration of the Greek Αγκων, meaning " elbow "; the harbour to the east of the town was originally protected only by the promontory on the north, shaped like an elbow.
The town leaders protected Tausen from the Bishop of Viborg.
In 1871 the town was described as a poor place, with narrow streets, fairly good flat-roofed houses, grass huts, decayed forts and rusty cannon, enclosed by a wall 6 ft. high then recently erected and protected by bastions at intervals.
The road to Contalmaison beyond La Boisselle was important to the British because the town of Contalmaison enjoyed a high position where the Germans protected their artillery, a focal point in the center of the front line.
The town was surrounded by a mud wall with a circumference estimated at six miles ( Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 ), pierced by six gates, and protected by a ditch five feet deep, filled with a dense growth of prickly acacia, the usual defence of West African strongholds.
Approximately northwest of the town of Bagdad lies the Upper Burro Creek Wilderness Area, a protected area home to at least 150 species of birds and featuring one of the Arizona desert's few undammed perennial streams.
The old town centre, within the borders of the old city walls, is nowadays protected by the government, both the main structures and architectural details.
The change from incorporated town to independent city status also effectively protected Poquoson from potential annexation suits by the adjacent City of Hampton.
Oxford was a secure town, protected by walls and the River Isis, but Stephen led a sudden attack across the river, leading the charge and swimming part of the way.
The town of Fairfield is protected by the 95 paid full-time firefighters of the Fairfield Fire Department ( FFD ), and the volunteer firefighters of the Southport Volunteer Fire Department and the Stratfield Volunteer Fire Department.
The town is located at the confluence of the Naugatuck River, Northfield Brook and Black Rock Brook, and is protected by Army Corps of Engineers flood control dams on each of these watercourses.
Mansfield enjoys a moderate amount of protected open space, notably Mansfield Hollow State Park, eight town parks and preserves, and numerous Joshua's Trust properties, in addition to university holdings.
The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the town, a protected island location.
To the far west, the town was protected by the River Taff, with tents pitched on the land between.
This includes Town Creek, which nearly splits the town in two from north to south and provides a protected harbor for boaters and Oxford's local shipbuilders.
Dartmouth includes the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve that extends from Fall River into many protected forests of North Dartmouth in the Collins Corner, Faunce Corner, and Hixville sections of town.

town and by
First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
When Sir Edward Greville enclosed the town commons on the Bancroft, Quiney and others leveled his hedges on January 21, 1600/1, and were charged with riot by Sir Edward.
Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.
They buy some supplies from our colored grocers and they are patronized by some of the best white gentlemen in town ''.
The clock you heard strike -- it's really the town clock -- was installed last April by Mrs. Shorter, on her birthday ''.
On Thursday evening we may go out of town together by some stage or mail about the distance of ten or twelve miles.
Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.
As the historic processes of modernization gradually gain momentum, their cohesion will be threatened by divisive forces, the gaps between rulers and subjects, town and country, will widen ; ;
The committee submitted a report signed by Louis Martin and Leon Wiley with a map published in the 1946 town report.
No figures were submitted with the report and no action was taken on it by the town.
The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.
On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.
Gulf Springs was ten miles inland -- more of a quaint old coast town than those along the beach made garish by tourist attractions.

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