Does the town you grew up in ever make the National News?

[Bretrick]

My home town has made the National News several times, not for good reasons though.
There is a copper mine there which had huge lay offs in the 70's to keep it viable.
The mine closed in 1994 and reopened in 1996 under new ownership.
The mine was the only major employer in the town so people started to move away. Businesses suffered and many closed down.
Three deaths at the mine inside three weeks saw the mine close again in 2014.
It is yet to reopen, if it ever will.

 

[Tommy]

If it did, I'm not aware of it!

 

[Paco Dennis]

I have seen my home town often in the news and articles. Silicon Valley, Cupertino, San Jose ( I was wrapping big computer harnesses in 1971 ), Palo Alto, Sunnyvale...etc.

 

[Della]

Well we had a really big pumpkin this year.

 

[hollydolly]

The town I grew up in is the biggest city in the country...so it's never out of the news.....

Conversely.....
........The town I live in is a small rural area where someone's bike getting stolen makes the local news....

 

[JustDave]

Yes, for a small Montana town of 2,000, we even had two or three books published about our town where WR Grace was polluting the environment and causing miserable deaths. They have since declared bankruptcy of that subsidiary to avoid responsibility. At the time it was the most expensive EPA cleanup ever.

 

[againstthegrain]

Yes it's in the national news on a daily basis.

 

[BJintheUK]

Yes, Bristol, UK has been in the national news a few times over the years. It's where the Clifton Suspension Bridge is, and where the SS Great Britain was built. It's also where the Brabazon airliner and Concorde were both made. My mum was a tracer at Filton (the BAC factory site) and worked on the Brabazon, and later on I worked at Filton as a milling machinist and made parts for Concorde.

Since then Bristol's changed a great deal, and not for the better as far as I'm concerned.

 

[moviequeen1]

Yes, a couple times over the yrs,the' Blizzard of '77,the Buffalo Bills pro football team going to the Super Bowl 4 yrs in a row, losers each time

 

[Lewkat]

I hope not, since it is considered one of the safest to live in.

 

[jujube]

Yep, Indianapolis is a "sports town" now....auto racing, basketball, football.

When I grew up there, we called it IndiaNOplace....LOL.

 

[IrishEyes]

I was all over Los Angeles county so there's that.

 

[Imogene]

Only if a tornado goes thru - which it has once or twice in my 78 years.

 

[RadishRose]

Yes, but not good news.

 

[Deya]

Not the towns, but the area, Texas Hill Country.

 

[Pam]

Yes. The UKs nuclear submarines are built here.

Sixth nuclear-powered attack submarine is launched in Barrow

Also made the headlines 12 months ago when there was a fire in the building where the subs are built.

 

[Paladin1950]

Does the town you grew up in ever make the National News?​

 

[officerripley]

The Tech Bro Murders: The programmer who believed cannibalism would make him elite

 

[Babs2u]

A resident who was a NY city firefighter named Tom Westman won Survivor: Palau, season 20. He became a motivational speaker.

 

[Jace]

yes when "a certain person" made a "stop"....before..
I was surprised..because I didn't think my hometown was
that.important...hmmm!

 

[Lawrence00]

Well, um, does murder capital of the USA count? It has liked to stay in the top 10 for at least a decade, and won the top spot multiple times. St Louis, MO

 

[WOLF ANGEL]

Manchester, England - home of the (International) Airport, and incidents therefrom, visitors in hotels in locales and the reactions land or Weather issues, - not not mention the sporting aspects of the City, - we do get our fair share of National press

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Except for maybe being included with pics of the aftermath of Helene, the only time our town's recognized nationally was an episode of Jimmy Fallon where they went over a list of "weird" town mascots. Our town mascot, "Yumion" (we grow sweet onions) was voted 1st or 2nd I think. A rather dubious distinction =( Does that count?

 

[Gardenlover]

Yes, I grew up in Ferguson Missouri.

 

[mrstime]

I think the last time my hometown made national news was when the pier burned down. That was many years ago.