Small Towns

PHOTOS: America's 9 Most Bizarre Destinations

| Posted 04.25.2012

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By Zachary Collinger for Bookish: Residents of a small Austrian town are looking for a new identity: Their mountain village’s unfortunate name ha...

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In Memory of Dr. Robert Whitton: A Life Well-lived and the Tragedy of an Unnecessary Death

Kevin Bell | Posted 01.29.2012

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Kevin Bell

What breaks my heart about Dr. Whitton's death is less the idea that I could have walked out into the street in his place, or even the thought that my own error could have easily caused such an accident.

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Retaining Sustainable Storefronts in the Urban Realm

Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 10.09.2011

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Charles R. Wolfe

Vital storefronts are an indicator of urban success, while empty businesses are akin to the ruins of Pompeii.

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Small Town America Pushes Back Against Cuts To Local Services

The Wall Street Journal | Kate Linebaugh | Posted 08.08.2011

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Around the country public officials are asking themselves similar questions. Plunging property-tax receipts and rising pension and health-care costs h...

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Local Voices: Hyperlocal Blogging Comes to Patch

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.04.2011

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Arianna Huffington

This week, we launched a great new chapter for Patch.com -- we are welcoming new bloggers to Patch sites around the country through our new Local Voices blog feature. Local Voices will complement Patch's original reporting, allowing members of each community to speak up and speak out to their neighbors -- whether they're across town, a block away, or two doors down. READ MORE The Bin Laden Bounce: How Will Obama Use This Moment of Unexpected Unity? The mission to bring Osama bin Laden to justice was a great victory and a testament to the brave soldiers who carried it out. And it came at a time when such clear and present victories no longer seemed possible. But there's no reason why this sense of tangible achievement must end in Abbottabad. READ MORE WATCH: Arianna Discusses Obama, Trump, Seth Meyers And More On This Week

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Gold Hits Records High, Americans Sell Their Treasures

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 06.22.2011

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This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com. It was a rainy afternoon in January of 1848 when a builder named James Mar...

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In Small Illinois Towns, Candidates Are Few And Far Between

AP | By TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 06.18.2011

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CEDAR POINT, Ill. -- Michael Mahar was the big winner in this month's village election, but it had nothing to do with his popularity. He was the only ...

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Great American Small Food Towns

The Daily Meal | Posted 06.14.2011

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The Daily Meal

Restaurants in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles have all won awards, been lauded by critics time and again, and often serve as land...

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Village Green: How Towns and Landscape Can Help Each Other

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.31.2011

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Karen White's Falling Home Is All About Small Town Living and Loving

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Betrayal, Heritage, Lost Loves, The South, Karen White, Small Towns, Georgia, Books News
Jackie K. Cooper

Novelist Karen White's Falling Hoome is a re-tooled, expanded story that shows her at her storytelling best.

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Silence Equals Suicide (VIDEO)

Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson

Last month, Seth Walsh went out to the back yard of his house in the small town of Tehachapi, California, and hung himself. His mother Wendy knew that he was being bullied and harassed because he was gay, but what could she do?

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PHOTOS: 11 Great Small American Towns

Posted 05.25.2011

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What's considered a small town these days? Since so many towns are extensions of cities, it's hard to find the real thing anymore. Is 50,000 a small t...

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Hometown Honey: A Visit to Tiny Atlantic, Iowa

Chris Gray Faust | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Gray Faust

Nothing gives you more insight into your spouse's DNA than a trip to their hometown. It's an exploration of far more intimate geography, a navigation of the elements that shape a personality.

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Village Green: Musings on Vacation Sites, Consumption, and Resilient Communities

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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F. Kaid Benfield

  When one can afford it, travel can be a wonderful experience.  Many of us relish the adventure of seeing new places, eating new foods, ex...

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The Free Box Provides

Lise Waring | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lise Waring

Many believe that the Free Box can manifest exactly what you need -- that all you have to do is visualize it.

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Green Ties and Red Cats

Stephanie Gertler | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stephanie Gertler

I thought about what it might be like living some place other than New York City where life might be less complicated, or perhaps complicated by different perplexities and at a slower pace.

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Rapes Of Elderly Women Terrify Central Texas Towns

AP | PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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YOAKUM, Texas — With a serial rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty has developed a new routine when she arrives home: search room to room, a h...

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2010: The Year Main Street Sticks It to Wall Street and Washington

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

If anyone has ever dreamed of being an office holder, 2010 is the year to do it. There are going to be several situations where voters elect a complete unknown, just to express their anger about the incumbent.

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Small Town Values in a Big Time Lawyer

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

It could be that President Obama is a small town guy after all. His early adulthood on the south side of Chicago is where he found a "small town" environment that embraced him.

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Captain Jack Carey: Losing a Legend

Lise Waring | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lise Waring

Small town living makes me a part of a diverse community where everyone from real estate broker to rasta is united in the same sentiment, which Jack always embraced, warmth for humanity.

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It Takes an Income to Support a Village

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lita Smith-Mines

When I stopped earning a respectable living I knew I had to cut back on expenses. But what I really cut back on was supporting many of the small business owners and individuals who live and work around my town.

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Who Cares About New York?

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harry Moroz

Urban America is resurgent and hearing the stories -- both good and bad -- from its diverse environs will help city dwellers and suburbanites alike better understand the nation's economic challenges.

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The Great American Heartland Initiative: Creating Obama's "Working Majority for Change"

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Abrams

Obama won 52.4% of the popular vote. What does that mean for the "working majority for change" that Obama needs to create and sustain, a tall order under any circumstances in turf-focused Washington, DC?

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Little Town, Big Town

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marcia DeSanctis

There is no advantage in deliberately creating character divisions based on geography in a country where good and bad, and hard-worker, slacker -- and unemployed -- mean the same, everywhere.

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I Was Born in a Small Town.

Joan Garry | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joan Garry

I was born in Amityville, New York. Small town. About the size, let's say, of Wasilla, Alaska. My mom was born there too. She's 81 and still lives...

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