The village's first mayor, Thomas J. Stoddard, and other members of the municipal government took office in April 1973.

In 1849, the village's first railroad depot was built, and local farmer Samuel Nutt arranged to buy and dismantle a hotel in Enfield, New Hampshire, and move it to his farm on the other side of the railroad tracks from the depot.

The northwestern area of the village is mostly residential, with the village's schools all located a short walk from each other and the district offices in an old high school building on Main Street.

The falls were also the cause of the village's existence, providing water power for mills, distilleries, tanneries, and other factories.

Other villages were built in the Angerdorf type, where a main street fork encloses a large meadow (" Anger ") in the village's center where the life stock was kept at night, sometimes the church or other buildings not used for living were built on the Anger also.

The village's name may have been taken from the 15th century pack-horse bridge which remains the only vehicular route from one side of the village to the other, and featured in the Children's television programme Bagpuss.

The station is one of the village's two stops on the circular Tyne and Wear Metro which connects it to Newcastle, the other being West Monkseaton.

) She is a devoted homemaker, wife and mother, and an excellent cook, but she has other talents as well: ten years prior to the events in the series, she won the village's airplane race, and proceeded to win a second time in the episode " Mommy Can Fly " ( despite not being an official entrant in the race and only taking the cockpit in order to rescue other contestants who were stranded following a crash ).

Within the village is the Polperro Heritage Museum of Fishing and Smuggling, situated on the harbourside in an old fish processing warehouse, which amongst other things, houses interesting photographs of the village's history.

took up stations at the village's points of entry and exit, heading off people from other settlements returning from market.

The village's other schools include the Horsell Village School, built 1851, and independent school St. Andrew's School along with Woking High School, formerly Horsell High School.

Originally based on farming, the village's main industries other than tourism are now fishing and fish farming.

Ynyshir has its own library, post office, doctor's surgery and a number of shops and other significant amenities, although these represent a fraction of the businesses which once fronted the main road-Ynyshir Road during the village's heyday.

These were followed by the village's only building of note, other than the church, its only pub the Roggiett Hotel.

The village's other former pubs are The Pear Tree ( 47 New Road ), The Chestnuts, The Pig and Whistle ( 63 High Street ), The Fox, and The Black Horse ( Potton Road ).

Though there is a typical village green and pond on Green Lane, along with some of the village's oldest cottages, there was never a distinct centre to the village and other parts have a distinct “ Victorian ” feel.

The village's attractions, other than its scenic beauty, include the ruined Church of St. John, the Baptist.

The village's high school students attend Metamora Township High School in neighboring Metamora.

However, almost all the Bay Street marina complex, including Sag Harbor Yacht Club and Breakwater Yacht Club, are at the foot of Main Street is in East Hampton as are the village's high school, the Sag Harbor State Golf Course, and the freed slave community of Eastville.

Because they became part of the village's tax base, their construction enabled the McFarland School District to fund a new high school.

" The article cited a pageant, attended by 4000 people, which enacted scenes from the village's history, and concluded with the naming of the school principal as the Civic Secretary, charged with making the school the center of the life of the town.

A school shooting occurred at the village's Weston High School on September 29, 2006.

There, John began school and attended Sunday school at the village's Methodist church.

Arden Hill Hospital sits on the high ground overlooking Route 17 in the village's southeast corner and John S. Burke Catholic High School, Orange County's principal Catholic high school, is located on Fletcher Street near the freeway in the southwest.

Currently, there are seven elementary schools, one junior high school, one high school and three nursery schools in the former village's area.

These include Kawaharagou, Kasamatsu, and Sougawa ; each hamlet has an elementary school, with Kawaharagou home to the village's only Junior High School.

The school building also hosts a medical office and village's library:

The village's primary school, named after the church, was founded in 1873.

Many of the village's ancient traditions are still honoured today, notably the carnival, where children dress up in themed costumes, and a parade complete with custom made floats and a brass band that runs to the St Lawrence school field from the Royal Oak, another pub.

The village's primary school is West Haddon Endowed Church of England Primary School.

The village's former school is now an activities centre for conservation studies.

It has a thriving first school, the Eckington Church of England First School, a scout hut with surrounding recreation grounds, home to village's football and cricket teams, and a well used village hall.

By 1800 it had a population of about 950 growing to 1, 862 by 1851 and in 1860 the first purpose built school opened with John Taylor as the first headmaster and his wife as headmistress, and continues to expand to serve the village's growing population.

The village's school, with around 125 pupils, serves the surrounding rural area.

The school newspaper is called the Tower Times, and the school yearbook The Tower, both referring to the school building's five-story tower and facade that rise over the main entrance and dominate the village's skyline.

He spent his first winter using his upside-down boat for shelter, which is reflected in the architecture of the village's Community Centre.

The village's center contains rock houses with balconies, and a village fountain is known as " Antana ' e Cartzonna ".

The reason for the Japanese name " harbor wave " is that sometimes a village's fishermen would sail out, and encounter no unusual waves while out at sea fishing, and come back to land to find their village devastated by a huge wave.

Chico is fascinated by Petra, one of the village's young women, while Bernardo begins to bond with three of the village's little boys.

* The Bull, the village's only pub following the closure of * The Cat and Fiddle * which was later converted into apartments, is perhaps the most recognisable structure in Ambridge.

Slane Wanderers is the village's local football club, whose home games are played in Wheatfield Park.

Adjacent to the hill, at the foot of the village's High Street, is the old Guildhall with a 14th-century undercroft.

Thurne is also home to the well-respected sailing club Theta, which has been accommodated here for over half a century and is now part of the village's character.

Because all property in the village is private land, the Sea Ranch Lakes Police Department is legally allowed to deny access to residential areas of the village to non-residents through the use of the village's main gate on Gatehouse Rd at A1A.

The village's name is derived from a Spanish term used to describe " The Gate ," after two huge wooden gates on Northeast Second Avenue that were taken down in the 1940s.

None of the village's land area is covered by water.

The village's name comes from a local landowner and businessman, Jefferson Hodgkins and is unrelated to the discoverer of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Thomas Hodgkin.

It is unclear exactly how Hodgkins ' name came to replace Gary as the village's moniker.

The village's topography is mostly flat.

The boundary between the two municipalities is Austin Boulevard on the east side of Oak Park and North Avenue on the village's north side.

Cyrus Bunting is the village's current acting mayor.

The village's current mayor is Betty Duggan.

The village's slogan is " The Friendly Village with Country Charm.

This is the village's largest park and one of the larger parks in the local region.

* The village is also located along a branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and thus many of the village's industries are near the railroad for convenient access to Elgin, Rockford, Chicago, and essentially the rest of the world.

The Aspen Drive Library in Vernon Hills is the village's first full-service library.

Forest Park Nature Center is a nature reserve on the bluff containing several miles of trails of varying difficulty and the village's only native prairie restoration site.