Our Town

serve the Town of Fairplay as a police officer and police chief over the past 5 years. When I accepted the position of police chief in July, 2014 I assumed responsibility for a department decimated by the dishonorable, unethical and illegal behavior of former employees. As a long-time resident of the Town I was faced with finding another job and uprooting my family or staying and taking on the task of rebuilding the department. I accepted the challenge with my primary goal making the Town of…

an in depth look into the workings of our own worlds. She shows us how those worlds can turn cruel and unjust. Lottery illuminates the role our past and traditions influence our present. “Jackson sends the message that blindly adhering to rituals and the way things have always been done, seemingly “good” citizens in an ordinary town can commit astonishing acts of selfishness and wickedness; and we are capable of doing the same.” It seems like an ordinary town. With regular folk living normal…

is an example of intentional community that can inspire ideal cities of the future to increase the sense of community that has almost completely disappeared. The Disney Company’s critique towards our current way of living in a community guided them to find a solution that was inspired…

myth. She walks Boo back to his front porch which she spent many previous summers looking into past the metal gate. Scout can see the unexpected characteristics of Boo Radley through a different point of view, and realizes how the stereotypes of the town affects the roles of different people. Scout’s…

charity for the people in need. I live in the small town of Alpena, and I would love to make it a beloved community. One way I would make it beloved is to make more activities. For example, art shows, free open, or glow skate at Northern Lights Arena, or even a boat show something for people to do and have fun at the same time. Activities would make it beloved by creating more things to do because, there isn’t much you can do in this small town we live in. Also…

had a good story to tell us kids, the stories he told would make the back of our hairs stand up and give us nightmares for days. It was hard to believe how that old sweet man could come up with such eerie tales. I was going to miss Grandpa Bruno. He was an old man with silver gray hair, and green eyes that were barely visible through his wrinkly face. My mother and I had missed him by a day, he died before we could say our goodbyes. From Grandpa Bruno's death I learned that my family was not as…

structures, once palaces of capitalism and progress now crumbling piles of masonry and timber. Your own town may have structures such as this and you may think every day you see it that it would be best if it was just torn down, that is why I am here. These buildings should not be torn down for a multitude of reasons, the loss of them is something that not only ruins the beauty of many towns but also is an easy way to miss out on an opportunity to attract businesses. These structures were…

of the town that they have grown up in. For me, growing up in Roseland, New Jersey, was not like that at all. My hometown of three square miles was the perfect place to spend my childhood and formative years. Since I spent the majority of my life living in such close quarters with everyone in the town, very quickly the people and town instilled the values that I live by into me and shaped me into the person that I am today. The first place I wanted to capture of my hometown was our town plaza.…

error of our ways propagating the source of our own destruction. As Cassius notes in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Today, we regularly find economic motivation and unrestrained capitalism driving decisions that can have long-term deleterious effects on widely dispersed populations. These choices are also shaped by the reality that we rarely have definitive scientific evidence to support the conclusion that…

past, they are believed to still be bias to white Americans against other ethnicities. While this is what the town was founded upon, they have slowly began to be more acceptable to other races. The media, or video, shows that the town is based upon preserving the white American culture, however, if you watch with an open mind, you will see that it is not just for white Americans. The town welcomes in families of all races, if you will adjust to the community. Through multiple interviews, you can…