Local
Village elections for a handful of mayors and board trustees were held on Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Four villages, three in Cattaraugus County and the fourth being the village of Seneca Falls, placed referenda for dissolution on their village ballots; all four approved dissolution. Two villages in Erie County (Sloan and Williamsville) rejected dissolution referenda held concurrently on August 17, despite (or possibly because of) the campaigning of Kevin Gaughan. Another referendum proposing the dissolution of Lakewood, New York was also defeated eight days later, on August 25, though Gaughan was not involved in that vote. The villages of Farnham and Cuba rejected dissolution referenda on September 28; Gaughan backed the Farnham dissolution. Odessa rejected dissolution on December 7. School board elections and budget referenda were held May 18, with approximately 92 percent of school budgets passing.
Read more about this topic: New York State Elections, 2010
Famous quotes containing the word local:
“Resorts advertised for waitresses, specifying that they “must appear in short clothes or no engagement.” Below a Gospel Guide column headed, “Where our Local Divines Will Hang Out Tomorrow,” was an account of spirited gun play at the Bon Ton. In Jeff Winney’s California Concert Hall, patrons “bucked the tiger” under the watchful eye of Kitty Crawhurst, popular “lady” gambler.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)
“Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)