1.   Early Boston and surrounding New England towns were especially rich in antiques because their Puritan culture and bustling Yankee trade fostered fine craftsmanship.

2.   Local businesses and surrounding towns have offered to lend backhoes and other digging equipment.

3.   Plus we border another state and surrounding towns.

4.   Pictures of the old woodburners can be found on the walls of shops and fishing camps around Caddo Lake and surrounding towns such as Jefferson.

5.   The break-ins are the talk of Rhinebeck and surrounding towns.

6.   People who live in Camilla and surrounding small towns were still waiting in the hospital Monday, looking for information on missing friends and family.

7.   A Japanese Embassy statement said old pumps were replaced in four pumping stations in the western Jordan Valley, where treatment plants supply water to Amman and surrounding towns.

8.   A series of memorial services was planned over the next several days in Halifax and surrounding towns.

9.   El-Minya and surrounding towns have been the site of frequent clashes between police and militants.

10.   It was the worst of at least four fires reported Monday in metropolitan Manila and surrounding towns, police said.