[MineralMan]

"This is the second time that have read a newspaper story with the word "village" in the title. Since when do we have villages?"

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Way too sensitive, there, mindspy. We've always had villages. They're nothing more than small towns, mostly unincorporated and without much commerce. Maybe a general store of some kind.

Some communities even term themselves "villages." It's not a bad term.

[SJSAMPLE]

Yep, like the new term ...

The "village" of New Orleans ;)

[jmc813]

Way too sensitive, there, mindspy. We've always had villages. They're nothing more than small towns, mostly unincorporated and without much commerce. Maybe a general store of some kind.

Here in Northern Jersey the rich yuppie towns think it's cute to refer to themselves as "villages" even though they have plenty of commerce and a municipal government almost identical to the traditional borough setup.