Resisting the merger urge

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Kenneth C. Crowe II and Tim Blydenburgh

Morehouse

The Hamilton County town of Morehouse may be a gorgeous chunk of the Adirondacks, but even if it's paradise few are flocking here.

In fact, it appears to be emptying out — as many as five dozen people left between 2000 and 2010, when the U.S. census showed it had just 86 residents. Rising prices for staples such as fueland a dwindling supply of affordable housing weigh heavily on very small towns like Morehouse.

"It's a challenge on many levels," Supervisor William Farber said from the town hall, which is in the same building as the post office and can be easily missed by travelers on tree-lined Route 8. "When gas is $2 a gallon, that's one thing. When it's $4 a gallon, that influences people's bottom line in a big way."

New York may be the third-most populous state, but it's small-town America, too — 11.5 percent of its 932 towns have fewer than 1,000 residents. Those picture-postcard towns are scattered across upstate.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Resisting-the-merger-urge-5679118.php

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1. Economic cleansing, another way to usurp with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Vermont is owned by people born in New Jersey, not people born in Vermont . I won't say it's Qatar, but left unregulated, it will be .