Beginning in the 1990s, development in Channahon took on a more upper middle-class bent, with subdivisions sprouting in the former gravel quarrying and dairy farming areas near the I & M Canal in the village's western areas, and a widely acclaimed, award winning public golf course opening in the hilly southeastern area of the village near I-55.

The village's lakefront is dominated by the 3. 0 mile long " Lake Path ," which is a public hiking trail running from the south end of Wells College to the Levana cliffs.

On its main street, Franklin Avenue, many of the village's main eateries, stores, and landmarks including the public library, can be found.

Most of the village's public services are provided by contract with Grandview Heights, including police and fire, and it is included in the Grandview Heights School District and public library system.

In the elections of November 2007, Rebecca Hamilton and Greg Hostetler were elected to the village council, and Brad Hudson and Dean King were elected to the village's board of public affairs.

* Knutson Memorial Library, located on Main Street, is the village's public library.

The village's public park is named Pastime Park, and features baseball and softball diamonds, camping facilities, a nature walking path, two children's play parks, and the village's public pool, Pastime Pool.

Today the village's Shaker Cemetery is maintained by the township trustees and is open to the public ; while most of the settlement's buildings remain along Oxford Road, they are all privately owned.

* Herdman House now a private residence but built as the village's public library and gaming room, it at one time included a billiard hall and extensive library section before conversion to its present use

The village's public house is called the Half Moon and is noted as being one of two inns in 1577.

The village's single public house, now closed, was called the Rayleigh Arms, Lord Rayleigh being the title of the head of the Strutt baronage who live in the manor house, Terling Place.

The village's main public house was built in 1637 and was known as The Plough until 1798 when it was renamed The Lord Nelson in honour of the victory at the Battle of the Nile.

Located on the west side of the green, this was the village's major public building and landmark.

During the village's ' hey-day ', ten public houses over a half-mile ( 0. 8 km ) stretch of the High Street reflected the large mining population at the time

Every alternate Easter the residents of Cossington open their gardens to the public for two days for the ' Secret Gardens of Cossington ' in which the village's better gardeners show off their talents, with all the proceeds of ticket sales going to charity.

One of the village's unusual features is the Pack o ' Cards public house built around 1700 by George Ley.

The village's only public transport link is the number 31 / 131 bus service operated by First Glasgow to Milton and East Kilbride.

Prior to this the village was supplied by a series of shallow wells ( many of which still remain although bricked up under the village's more modern housing estates ), although there were three springs which fed public ponds at the Queen's Head, on Lexden Road, and near the White Hart, and there was a deep well at the brewery.

The village's only Indian restaurant is appropriately called The Four Counties Spice ; this used to be the village's only public house, which was appropriately called The Four Counties Inn.

The village's schools saw a renovation in 2002 to improve and expand classroom learning and appearances.

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.

Like neighbouring communities such as Woodbridge, Maple, and Unionville – as is typical for most urbanized former Greater Toronto Area ( GTA ) villages outside of the City of Toronto – Thornhill remained the postal designation for addresses within the former village's boundaries, and community organizations such as local newspapers, sports teams, and schools continued to operate under the Thornhill name and designation.

Many parts of the township carry names inspired by the village's name, including the three high schools of Thornton Township District 205: Thornton Township High School in Harvey, Illinois ; Thornwood High School in South Holland, Illinois ; Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois ; Thornton Fractional South High School in Lansing, Illinois ; Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, Illinois and Thornton Fractional Center for Academics and Technology also in Calumet City, Illinois.

Maintenance of an independent community separate from the Wycombe conurbation has been helped not only by the village's historic connections with the Missendens, Penn Street and Amersham but also by the presence in the village of a full range of amenities including: pre-schools ; primary and secondary schools ; three different Christian denomination churches ( Anglican, Baptist, Methodist ); a GP practice ; a dental practice ; three pubs ( The Bat and Ball, The Earl Howe and The Old Oak ); two clubs ( The British Legion and the Holmer Green Sports Association ); and good sports facilities.

During World War 2 Ginoza village's schools were used as field hospitals.

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

The church has strong links with one of the village's junior schools, Horsell C of E Junior School.

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.

The village's other school is John Gibbard Lower School which caters for young children aged from 3 – 9 years old who live in the immediate area and is one of the feeder schools for Margaret Beaufort Middle School which is located in the nearby village of Riseley.

Waltham's landmarks include Waltham Windmill, which is used as the symbol for the village's Infant and Junior schools.

Most of them have a church and a " Casa do Povo " ( people's house ), where the village's summer romarias or religious festivities are usually held.

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

The village's grocery and fuel needs are served by a single general store, owned and operated by the local Alaska Native Corporation, Nunapitchuk, Limited.

Most Quinhagak households practice subsistence hunting and gathering in addition to any wage work they are able to find, utilizing the village's excellent location for salmon and trout fishing, bird, caribou, and moose hunting, and berry picking.

Law Enforcement services to the village are provided by the Sea Ranch Lakes Police Department who patrol the walled in residential section of the village, the oceanfront beach club, and the shopping plaza which fall within the village's municipal boundaries.

Smaller neighborhood centers and stand-alone retail buildings are located further north, in addition to the larger community retail plaza Huntley Center, the village's first shopping center.

* 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.

There are only a handful of businesses in the village's 16 blocks.

The village's fire suppression services are operated by the Rockdale Fire Protection district.

The three main ethnic backgrounds are Italian, Irish and German, comprising over three-fourths of the village's population.

Today the railroads are gone but the village's proximity to Interstate 84, the New York State Thruway and Stewart International Airport ensure its continued status as a transportation and distribution center.

Restaurants on the east end, including Claudio's in Greenport, served the illegal booze .< REF > Ben Amato, Coming Ashore: Rum Runners Of The East End, Hamptons. com, October 1, 2009 </ REF >< REF > Greenport NY Community Profile, NOAA Fisheries Service </ REF > Many of the village's older structures are included in the Greenport Village Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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.

The village's post office building, the George and John R. Hunt Memorial Building and the former D & H Canal are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Still in existence today are the Odd Fellows ' Cemetery Mound and the Perin Village Site, plus the Turpin Site and the Hahn Field Archeological District just outside of the village's boundaries.

Locals are particular on how to pronounce the village's name.

There are conflicting versions of the origin of the village's name.

Past the village's new residential housing which has recently transformed and breathed new life into the village, are plenty of preserved working farms, and one of these farms supplies the ice-cream for the award-winning Goodall's Ice Cream Parlour, owned by Mark and Stephen Goodall of Manor Lane, Tong.

There are two stories which explain the origin of the village's name.

For the " Dibley Live " ( 1998 ) episode of The Vicar of Dibley, in which the characters are generating programming ideas for the village's one-week radio station, the chronically dull Frank originally proposes a programme called Desert Island Desks, in which he would recount his favourites from the many desks at which he has sat during his lifetime.

Many of the village's historic buildings are encompassed by the Albany Street Historic District and Cazenovia Village Historic District.