However, some of the candidates said islanders preferred the personal touch in such a small community.
As a child, Natasha Bedingfield went to a small community school in a rough area of East London.
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Earlier this year, Myers served a three-month term as interim chief of police in Manitou Springs, a small community outside Colorado Springs.
Joan is part of a small community who do what they can to help each other survive by sharing food, clothes and money.
Slate production ended back in 1930 and today it is a small community with Ysgol Croesor, built in 1873, as its focal point.
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As time progressed the cave dwellers grew into a small community focused around the growing number of monasteries, which by the 14th Century served as shelter from Turkish invaders.
When healthcare search firm Merritt Hawkins helped hospitals look for doctors just a few years ago, about one in four clients were looking for a solo practicing physician, often a primary care doctor who would open up shop in a small community.
"He likes to focus on Martha, but the truth is he and his client have created the controversy by proposing an outlandish plan and going behind the backs of the community to try to get it built, " Mr. Mihlsten says in an email, likening the scope of the project to a small community shopping center.
One is a rural residency programme, in which students spend the last two years of their training in a country district, first in a very small community medical clinic, then in a somewhat larger town with a hospital.
In southern Lebanon the tiny hilltop village of Qawza is home to a small Christian community.
Sinn Fein's Mitchel McLaughlin said the "impact on a small rural community can only be imagined".
"There is a very small community in the Boston area, particularly in the Watertown area, " she said.
Known as Salta, la Linda (Salta, the beautiful one), the city of just 600, 000 residents has a small town community feel.
Over the last decade, a small, community-centric tourism industry has sprung up here, with local guides leading village-to-village treks through the mountainous farmland.
Egoyan aims his restrained camera at a small Adirondack community that's suffering an answer to that riddle on a grand scale.
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What about my wife, she is from a small farming community and enlisted to serve the country and to fund her education.
The CLC is usually a small, community building constructed through community participation.
New England was a small industrial community during the 19th Century and there is evidence continuous human activity and settlement in the area spanning at least a thousand years.
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Exactly one year later, we broke ground on a water and sanitation project in a small rural community called Joezohn with no access to safe drinking water or sanitation facilities.
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Each short-listed family was tested on initiative, stamina and team-working, as well as undergoing psychological tests to find out how they might cope with the stresses of living in a small mining community in Blaenavon.
Colorado Springs has a fairly small tech community, and most people there don't use social media much, aside from Facebook, Trencheny said.
Set in a small-town community in the West Country, it centres on the unexpected death of Barry Fairbrother, which shocks the local villagers.
Until the war in Indochina, the Hmong were a small, isolated community of farmers living in the highlands of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
"As big businesses like Kodak or Xerox were downsizing, we acknowledged the fact that we're going to be a small-business community, " Mr. Phelps says.
Veit calls it "a small-town community, " filled with folks who may not be wealthy but who work hard and look out for one another.
If you look at the progression of CES, it began as an event very similar to SXSW with a small close knit community of passionate purists.
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Every employee also belongs to a group or a community, even as small as a church congregation, a bowling club, or even a global researcher network.
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The practice became more widespread in the community after a small number of individuals who were held in high esteem because of their community spirit applied it successfully to create land and produce food.
In his home town, a small German-Catholic community lost in the Minnesota prairie, to take orders was the highest career.
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