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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:42:20 PM EST
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:49:07 PM EST
[#1]
Reading Phil’s?
Had my drone up and took this a few weeks ago after we left in the 9th. I took this at the Lancaster stadium  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:51:00 PM EST
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:55:37 PM EST
[#3]
Small town America is the best America
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Posted: 9/6/2024 6:58:51 PM EST
[#4]
Word
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:03:11 PM EST
[#5]
Same here.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:03:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Small town America is the best America I agree but small town western Iowa is struggling to stay alive. No manufacturing and most of the farm land is owned by big corporations and big farmers. No more 4 families per square mile to keep the small towns alive. This is the latest victim. Orient Macksburg school district Orient-Macksburg Schools plan to dissolve district. What's next for the students? KATE KEALEY Des Moines Register A school district in southwest Iowa voted to shutter its doors, making it the first district-wide closure in a decade for the state of Iowa. According to the meeting agenda, the school board discussed the dissolution process during its meeting Monday. The board voted unanimously to start the process to dissolve the district during the meeting, according to the Creston News Advertiser. Why is Orient-Macksburg school district closing? Dwindling enrollment, staffing issues and financial struggles forced the board to dissolve the school district, according to KCCI. For the 2021-2022 school year, Orient-Macksburg had 149 students from pre-school to 12th grade. Some grades had as few as three students during the 2023-2024 school year, according to enrollment data from the Iowa Department of Education. Where will the Orient-Macksburg students go to school? The district will continue to operate for the 2024-2025 school year. It is still being determined where students will attend school starting in August 2025. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:06:49 PM EST
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Posted: 9/6/2024 7:12:30 PM EST
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That's cool and stuff, but uh, that's city stuff.
Small towns are screwed. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:50:38 PM EST
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Just out of curiosity, what do you consider a small town? |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:53:49 PM EST
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That doesn’t seem very small town. The small towns I grew up in and around. I’d say there’s more people at that game than the whole population of the town I grew up in.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 8:58:01 PM EST
[#11]
Nice stadium for a small town.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:03:49 PM EST
[#12]
I love going to profesional league games. Much better than MLB.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:04:50 PM EST
[#13]
Is that Reading?
I'd consider Reading a city, by 10s of thousands of people. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:06:01 PM EST
[#14]
That's not a small town.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:06:13 PM EST
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If you have a stadium like that, you’re not in a small town.
Heck . . . my county seat is maybe 4,000 people tops. the second biggest town is 1,200. The closest ones to me are about 200- 300 . . . many being consolidated into one school district. Even with that, it’s so small that they can’t fill a football team (they allow kids to try out for the team at another school that barely has enough to play on their own). |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:08:12 PM EST
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Once I can retire from the service I will retire to an area near a small town (under 20K pop). I hate cities. I want to have a least 10 acres to myself. We will see.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:16:09 PM EST
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My closest small town has 210 people, the next over maybe 120ish.
There are larger towns 10-15 thousand within a 30 mile radius. One of the things that brings us all in together is our kids sports events, even in the smaller towns. We somehow mange to maintain ball diamonds and football fields. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:20:51 PM EST
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That's a lot of tax dollars...not small.
But it does look like a nice place to live. 
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:30:39 PM EST
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It's interesting what you think is a small town. My small town doesn't have a stadium anywhere near that big. In the entire county there's one municipality, there's no movie theater, there's no bowling alley, and the only two big box stores are home Depot and Walmart. The nearest mall is two counties away. And it's 25 mi from my house to the nearest grocery store or drugstore. And it might be hard to believe because I'm in Florida and we have more cows in the county than we have people.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:37:57 PM EST
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Small towner here. Mine is less than 4000 and a great community. Currently sitting in my in-laws living room. Town of 850.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:39:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Reading Phil’s? Had my drone up and took this a few weeks ago after we left in the 9th. I took this at the Lancaster stadium https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/587392/IMG_1766_jpeg-3315145.JPG Yessir |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:40:00 PM EST
[#22]
Jesus Christ you people are pedantic
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:40:36 PM EST
[#23]
Hey, I was one section over, tonight.
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:45:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jesus Christ you people are pedantic Which minor details chap your ass? Seriously? |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:45:50 PM EST
[#25]
 Attached FileAgreed. Not exactly a small town, in fact, the biggest city in the state. The umpire is one of my former Marines. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:46:40 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Small town America is the best America this |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:50:15 PM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Jesus Christ you people are pedantic I don't think so really, Reading is hardly a "small town" it's a small city, I work just north of Reading and deal with it daily. True it isn't Philly, and the "bad" area is only a couple of blocks and a couple small areas, but still a city. Going a little bit north, Strausstown, Bethel, Shartlesville....(near where I live) those are small towns. |
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:52:56 PM EST
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Last bastion of Freedom!
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Posted: 9/6/2024 9:55:02 PM EST
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I love my roots and my culture.
It is best. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 1:49:40 AM EST
[#30]
I assume this is minor league baseball, or do the PA high schools treat baseball like Texans treat football and just build the kids pro stadiums to play in?
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Posted: 9/7/2024 3:02:04 AM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I agree but small town western Iowa is struggling to stay alive. No manufacturing and most of the farm land is owned by big corporations and big farmers. No more 4 families per square mile to keep the small towns alive. This is the latest victim. Orient Macksburg school district Orient-Macksburg Schools plan to dissolve district. What's next for the students? KATE KEALEY Des Moines Register A school district in southwest Iowa voted to shutter its doors, making it the first district-wide closure in a decade for the state of Iowa. According to the meeting agenda, the school board discussed the dissolution process during its meeting Monday. The board voted unanimously to start the process to dissolve the district during the meeting, according to the Creston News Advertiser. Why is Orient-Macksburg school district closing? Dwindling enrollment, staffing issues and financial struggles forced the board to dissolve the school district, according to KCCI. For the 2021-2022 school year, Orient-Macksburg had 149 students from pre-school to 12th grade. Some grades had as few as three students during the 2023-2024 school year, according to enrollment data from the Iowa Department of Education. Where will the Orient-Macksburg students go to school? The district will continue to operate for the 2024-2025 school year. It is still being determined where students will attend school starting in August 2025. Clinton NAFTA'd most of the real jobs in Iowa decades ago. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 3:50:31 AM EST
[#32]
I agree OP
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Posted: 9/7/2024 4:27:09 AM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I assume this is minor league baseball, or do the PA high schools treat baseball like Texans treat football and just build the kids pro stadiums to play in? PA high schools are very on par with Texas high schools as far as football goes. Very large fan base and folks go nuts over the local school teams. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 4:58:07 AM EST
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That doesn’t seem very small town. The small towns I grew up in and around. I’d say there’s more people at that game than the whole population of the town I grew up in. Easily this, actually more than the next closest community included and everyone living within a 5 mile radius of each of those communities. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 5:21:59 AM EST
[#35]
Dang.
Out town barely has a park. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:10:27 AM EST
[#36]
OP confused small town with small city.
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:15:02 AM EST
[#37]
lol, not a small town
City boy is trying to hard to fit in |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:32:25 AM EST
[#38]
100,000 people population.
OP’s small town ballpark… 
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:35:54 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Small town America is the best America |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:39:32 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's not a small town. This |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:39:52 AM EST
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I live in a small town on the outskirts of a major metro population. We got our first grocery store this year.
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:44:01 AM EST
[#42]
Amen OP, it really is grand still.
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:46:29 AM EST
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We have five traffic lights.
Good place to raise kids. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:48:31 AM EST
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That's not a small town.
 That stadium would come close to holding the entire population of the nearest three or four small cities, possibly the entire county. Once an area hits about 75K-100K people it's big enough to set up a democrap party outpost and start up the corruption machines to harvest tax money for the party. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:49:20 AM EST
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Reading PA is a hell hole.
The entire township that makes up my AO is less than 1700 folks. The biggest town is just under 800. You can have eastern PA. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 6:55:47 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jesus Christ you people are pedantic You’re not exactly correct. “Increasingly pedantic” would be more accurate. 
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Posted: 9/7/2024 7:10:37 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I love going to profesional league games. Much better than MLB. I occasionally watched the older teenagers play in some kind of youth league. The kids were about 16 or so and were big and strong enough to play a pretty damned good game. Fuck MLB. These kids were playing their hearts out and playing hard because of the pure love of the game. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 7:11:16 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Jesus Christ you people are pedantic You call me that just because I painted my truck on my driveway didn't you?  You just lack just our perspective, 85,000 people isn't a small town to those of us who go into a town struggling to hold on to 2000 people. I spend 2 hours to drive to the nearest "big city" of 39,000 a couple of times a year to go shopping. It's about 200 miles to Green Bay which is the nearest city above 50K. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 7:13:38 AM EST
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I just drove through North Jersey. Sussex County on my way to Lake Wallenpaupack..
What a gorgeous gorgeous area. Cool low humidity weather. I drove through many small towns that were beautiful. Topped it off with a great lunch and a day on the lake. |
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Posted: 9/7/2024 7:15:52 AM EST
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Love the photograph. When I lived in the big city like that the only stadium events were soccer matches. Pero la zona se ha beneficiado de décadas de inmigración ilegal. Próximamente en un "pueblo pequeño" cerca de ti. |
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