Schafer, 50, owns Schafer Fisheries in Thomson, Illinois, a Mississippi River town 150 miles west of Chicago.
Another, Iron Hammer, targeted the area near Hit, a Euphrates River town north of Ramadi.
"It could be a real good thing, " says 23-year-old Frank Johnson, who lives in the Pope County seat of Golconda, a shrinking Ohio River town of 670.
With the idleness known only to childless couples on vacation, we'd squandered humid hours trying out vintage saxophones in the unventilated antique stores of a Hudson River town.
Louisville barely registers on most folks' list of hip places to travel, but it comes alive each year in the days before the first Saturday in May when this not-quite Southern, not-quite Midwestern Ohio River town turns on the charm for the Kentucky Derby Festival.
The case gained national attention after The New York Times published a lengthy piece on it in December and the activist hacker group Anonymous posted a video of teenagers in the Ohio River valley town cracking jokes about it.
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The case gained national attention after The New York Times published a lengthy piece on it in December and an activist hacker group this week posted a previously unpublicized video of teenagers in the small Ohio River valley town cracking jokes about the case.
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Nowhere is this more true than the Adelaide River near the town of Humpty Doo.
There is no sanitation, and water has to be carried from a river outside the town.
Hilda Lezama, the owner of the boat that was attacked, says she was transporting 13 passengers before dawn on the morning of May 11 on a river near the town of Ahuas, when the helicopters appeared overhead.
The entire sub-district of Sujawal was severely hit during the floods in 2010 and the town itself was completely evacuated as the river water started surging to the town.
The Moei River separating the Thai town of Mae Sot from the Burmese city of Myawaddy is a hotbed of crime.
The finished craft -- which has just been opened to the public on the Merwede River in the Dutch town of Dordrecht -- is 300 cubits long (about 450 feet or 137 meters), 50 cubits wide (about 70 feet or 21 meters), and 30 cubits high (about 45 feet or 14 meters).
Since the 1990s, he had run the Andy Williams Moon River Theater in his home town.
From there, head to the main river that cuts through the town, the Tungabhadra, to watch pilgrims and locals bathe down by the ghats.
Dave Throup from the Environment Agency said flood defences were put up as a precaution in the town as the river continued to rise.
The project is on a tributary of the Ausable River in the Essex County town of Jay, where an undersized culvert has caused severe erosion.
The pumping station will be constructed so water can be drawn off the Drybridge Community Pond when levels in the River Monnow rise in the town.
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"I'm not controlled by anybody, " he told the meeting, arguing that as mayor he would do far more to promote the town, putting river buses and more water sports on the river.
In the midst of canyon country, Robbers Roost, near the town of Green River, was both a hideout and base for Butch Cassidy, leader of the Wild Bunch Gang, a thieving group infamous for its train and bank robberies.
Buffalo is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and grew up in Bridger, a tiny town in the southwest corner of the Cheyenne River Reservation.
The historic town of Gjirokastra, in the Drinos river valley in southern Albania, is a rare example of a well-preserved Ottoman town, built by farmers of large estate.
Not so long ago this mill town on the Naugatuck River was an industrial powerhouse.
The country house was in a town near the Piave River, a trip the doctor could make in three days, by crossing the lagoon by gondola to Portegrandi and then continuing in a carriage.
Many Poles already cross the river from their decrepit side of the town, Zgorzelec, as they call it.
After four 12-hour days of sandbagging, Trish Connelly, 57, was exhausted but optimistic the town would beat back the river.
Maybe 100, 000 still do, about half of them north of the Ibar river, which cuts through the northern town of Mitrovica.
Mrs Spear, who has lived in Braunton for 45 years, added that there was a river running through the centre of the town.
They stayed at a lodge on the edge of town, down by the river, by the former train station where the outbuilding had burned.
Three Albanian boys then drowned in the River Ibar, which divides the northern town of Mitrovica into an Albanian south and a Serbian north.
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