"We hope he doesn't consider it again because the residents will just band together again," she said.

But many residents in this town of 28,000 people have banded together to save the 980-seat, three-screen theater on East Broad Street.

Around 1910, residents banded together to keep their sidewalk garden privileges, which the city was eliminating just north, above 14th Street.

But local residents banded together, and the dealers vanished.

Local residents banded together and protested the cell site claiming that big business was trying to run rampant over the little community of Val Verde.

In Canada, residents banded together to help American soldiers who arrive there, supplying money, food and rooms.

A few years ago, residents banded together to successfully prevent large-scale logging exploitation, including the building of a road accessible by vehicles through the entire valley.

But this summer many local residents have banded together in a common cause.

Restaurants and residents banded together for outdoor cookouts to consume food that would otherwise have spoiled.

Recently, residents rallied to have stop signs installed throughout the neighborhood and have banded together to ward off commercial and industrial zoning.