Salthouse Parish Council laid temporary poles around Salthouse green, opposite Cookie's Crab Shop, last month to put an end to cars damaging the grass.

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"You don't ruin expensive landscaping to put down water-hogging grass so your kids can play on a busy street, " I answer.

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In order to get people to farm, thus providing local food (you know, local is good, right?), in a place which is snow and ice for half the year it is necessary to put up huge trade barriers to food coming in from places with more grass and more cows.

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Police have put up cones to stop people parking on grass verges, and are hoping to avoid too much disruption.

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Many of these hard-core enthusiasts were the same people who succeeded in their grass-roots, statewide effort to put Palin in office in the first place.

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