By Gal Tziperman Lotan, Globe Correspondent

Demolition of another Plum Island home damaged in Fridays storm has been put off until Monday morning because the area is littered with debris, said Newbury building inspector Sam Joslin.

The house, at 37 Annapolis Way, did not collapse completely but was deemed uninhabitable after high tides snapped at least one of its support beams and ate away at its concrete foundation Friday. The home was assessed at $836,500. It had been scheduled for demolition between high tides today.

Crews plan to clean the area today while the contractor scheduled to take the house down works on supporting other houses in the area, Joslin said.

There really just arent going to be enough hours in the day today, he said.

Engineers also plan to inspect three houses on Fordham Way, numbers 34, 36, and 38. Joslin said the houses will probably have to be demolished as well, but homeowners could install temporary support beams so they can remove their belongings.

It could be a month before the houses are demolished, he said. Weve just got to take it step by step.

Two houses were demolished Saturday after they toppled off their foundations: a nearly $700,000 home at 31 Annapolis Way and an $800,900 home at 41 Annapolis Way.

The other six houses Joslin was concerned about as tides began rising Friday are temporarily uninhabitable, but can probably be repaired, he said.

Though they may have suffered over the last few tides a little bit more, I dont think the structures have suffered to the point of collapse, Joslin said.

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As preparations begin for the city's new Triple-A baseball stadium, demolition began for El Paso's beloved science museum.

The Insights El Paso Science Center closed its Santa Fe Street location Dec. 15, and the first wall came down Monday afternoon.

About a dozen spectators gathered to get their final glimpses of the museum. Joe Borunda said that it was a shame to be standing there to watch history come down.

"It's a beautiful building. Why tear it down?" Borunda said. "It's calledprogress,but progress costs money, and the taxpayers have to pay for that."

In the museum's place will be fresh turf and aspiringminor-leaguebaseball players. The land on which the museum stood will become the outfield area of the baseball stadium.

City engineer Alan Shubert previously told KFOX14 News that the demolition will be a fairly standard tear-down operation that could take a few days.

The contract for demolition was $1.5 million, split between the museum and City Hall, but Shubert expects it to possibly come in under budget.

Borunda feels that taxpayers are the ones footing the bill for something they didn't have control over.

"Now they're spending millions of dollars to tear them down, and then they're going to spend millions of dollars to put the stadium up. And who's paying for all that? The taxpayers," Borunda said. "If the city wants to do something, they're going to do it no matter what you say."

Any metal in the building will be recycled. The subcontractor for thedemolitionis Grant MacKay Demolition Co. of Houston, which won the contract with the lowest bid.

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WATERVLIET A grass-roots group went to court again Monday to attempt to stop the demolition of St. Patrick's Church as crews began tearing apart walls along the church stairs.

Citizens for St. Patrick's filed a lawsuit against the city of Watervliet to force the Zoning Board of Appeals to hear an appeal seeking to overturn the demolition permits given Nigro Companies to knock down the historic church.

Rosemary Nichols, a former city official and an attorney for Citizens for St. Patrick's, said the group would seek an order Tuesday to stop any further demolition before the lawsuit can be heard.

The case is assigned to Acting State Supreme Court Justice Kimberly A. O'Connor. Last week, O'Connor rejected motions to halt demolition work while another case challenging the rezoning of the church property was pending.

City attorneys reviewed the group's appeal to the ZBA over the weekend before determining that there was no legal reason for the zoning board to hear the matter.

"I have advised the building inspector that the ZBA does not have jurisdiction under the city code to hear an appeal of the issuance of the demolition permits," the city's special counsel, Paul Goldman, said in a letter sent over the weekend to the citizens organization.

"They don't have a stay. We're going ahead," said John Nigro, president of Nigro Companies, before the citizens group returned to court.

The citizens group is seeking to halt the razing of the church, rectory and school. The buildings must be cleared away in order to build a 40,200-square-foot Price Chopper supermarket and two smaller commercial buildings on the 3.5-acre site on 19th Street.

Dan's Hauling and Demo is preparing to raze the buildings for the developer.

Asbestos removal must be completed and the underground conduits carrying creeks through the site marked and protected from damage during demolition.

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