The problem of Westchester's confusing hodgepodge of village and town relationships was one issue identified by Westchester 2000, a public-private partnership created in the mid-1980's to assess what the future of Westchester should look like.
But the town's relationship with Lee never quite rested easy.
In so doing, the trust said it hoped to keep the town's relationship with the company much as it has been for the last 100 years, more or less.
Look into the town's relationship with its biggest money-spinner, and you quickly detect tension and mistrust: the harbour board is widely seen as a distant, complacent presence – a case study of how supposed public ownership often doesn't feel very public at all.
If your bank has branches in a student's college town, that relationship can easily continue.
The acrimony over the case has been heightened in a small town where relationships often stretch back decades.
But on the shores of the nation's most charming cities and towns, the relationship is complicated.
Fewer lawyers know Latin now, but in Yorkshire towns the relationship between, say, mahr and talaq is increasingly well understood.
But Finke was outraged, on Hollywood's behalf, that Snider's company had not only broken its word but devalued the currency that keeps the town liquid: relationships.
"We actually sit down with the members and we negotiate," said Cmdr. Bob Bardy of the Police Department's Sixth District, a part of town where relationships with parade promoters had historically been tense.
