1.   The Mill Yard, the derelict former mill and the associated mill pond in Scorton were mentioned as examples of what should not be allowed to happen.

2.   An Upper East Side resident, he grew up attending public schools in Norwich, Conn., a depressed former mill town.

3.   As if to stay one step ahead of such ghosts, some former mill workers are learning new trades at schools in Canton and Saranac Lake.

4.   His cleaning plant is in a former metal recycling mill in an industrial park he owns.

5.   In this panoramic novel, a former mill town in Maine becomes the embodiment of the dreams and disappointments of its citizens and of the country itself.

6.   Like most of the former mill employees and their spouses, she lives in the increasingly decrepit company apartment blocks.

7.   Many former mill workers are pursuing high school equivalency degrees, while others are studying new trades in the hope of recreating their lives.

8.   Officials had promised zero-tolerance policing of the depressed former mill town on Monday night, the last night of a long holiday weekend.

9.   Officials promised zero tolerance policing of the depressed former mill town Monday night, the last night of a long weekend.

10.   The campus curves around Paradise Pond, a serpentine water feature that was a former mill pond in the Mill River with a picturesque island at its center.