The Tar River Legacy Plan and improvements to Greenvilles Town Common are on the agenda for discussion at tonights City Council meeting.

The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. in council chambers on the third floor of City Hall.

In December 2013, the City Council approved a $184,000 proposal from a consultant team to study the seven-mile stretch of the river within city limits. The goal of the plan, according to staff, was to address enhanced recreational use of the river, ecotourism and associated economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner. The plan has been completed and includes a vision and strategies to enhance the rivers potential as a local amenity and regional attraction. The council will discuss the plan at tonights meeting.

Also tonight, the council will discuss recommendations for improvements to the Town Common.

The citys 2014-15 budget includes $150,000 for improvements. Staff assembled a series of possible projects for the funds, and the council requested that the Recreation and Parks Commission weigh in on the suggestions.

At its Oct. 8 meeting, the Recreation and Parks Commission ranked its preferred projects. The eight highest, in order, were a walkway from the parking lot to the amphitheater, ornamental benches, a floating fishing pier, vinyl-coated picnic tables, dumpster relocation with pad and PVC screening, recycling bin/trash can combination, water fountains with a pet fountain and decorative park entrances.

The commission voted to direct staff to adjust quantities of ranked items so all eight could be completed within a $150,000 budget.

The council will consider those suggestions and could vote on them tonight.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - ??Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Sunday, November 9.

Bollinger County, MO

Route 34 will be reduced with a width restriction of 12 feet while crews replace a pipe under the road. This section of road is located between Route DD and Route H. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Wednesday, Nov. 12 and Thursday, Nov. 13 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Route K to Route HH. Weather permitting, work will be performed Monday Nov. 10 through Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. The work zone will be marked with signs. Motorists are urged to use extreme caution while traveling near the area.

Butler County, MO

Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Old Route 72 to Route B.

Existing lanes of Route 67 from CR 323 to Route 160/158 will be signed as Route C. The north end of Route C (existing Route 67) will remain closed for about two months as work is completed at the intersection of Route 67, Route C, and CR 323.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Northbound Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced with a width restriction of 16 feet as contractor crews perform pavement repairs.This section of roadway is located from MM 91 to MM 93.Weather permitting, work will take place Tuesday, Nov. 18 through Thursday, Nov. 20 from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.

Property owners adjacent to the bridge will have access to their properties. A marked detour is proposed here:

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - ??Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Friday, November 7.

Bollinger County, MO

Route 34 will be reduced with a width restriction of 12 feet while crews replace a pipe under the road. This section of road is located between Route DD and Route H. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Wednesday, Nov. 12 and Thursday, Nov. 13 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

Butler County, MO

Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Old Route 72 to Route B.

Existing lanes of Route 67 from CR 323 to Route 160/158 will be signed as Route C. The north end of Route C (existing Route 67) will remain closed for about two months as work is completed at the intersection of Route 67, Route C, and CR 323.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Northbound Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau County will be reduced with a width restriction of 16 feet as contractor crews perform pavement repairs.This section of roadway is located from MM 91 to MM 93.Weather permitting, work will take place Tuesday, Nov. 18 through Thursday, Nov. 20 from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.

Property owners adjacent to the bridge will have access to their properties. A marked detour is proposed here:

From the north: Route 61 south to Route KK, west on KK to I-55, south on I-55 to Route E, then east on Route E to Route 61. From the south: Route 61 north to Route E, east on Route E to I-55, north on I-55 to Route KK, then east on KK to Route 61. Maps are available at MoDOT's Sikeston Office on N. Main St. Property owners can request a hearing in writing if affected.

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CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) - ??Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Wednesday, November 5.

Butler County, MO

Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Old Route 72 to Route B.

Existing lanes of Route 67 from CR 323 to Route 160/158 will be signed as Route C. The north end of Route C (existing Route 67) will remain closed for about two months as work is completed at the intersection of Route 67, Route C, and CR 323.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Property owners adjacent to the bridge will have access to their properties. A marked detour is proposed here:

From the north: Route 61 south to Route KK, west on KK to I-55, south on I-55 to Route E, then east on Route E to Route 61. From the south: Route 61 north to Route E, east on Route E to I-55, north on I-55 to Route KK, then east on KK to Route 61. Maps are available at MoDOT's Sikeston Office on N. Main St. Property owners can request a hearing in writing if affected.

Dunklin County, MO

The department had been looking at possible solutions that could keep the structure, which carries more than 5,100 vehicles per day, open to traffic. Following the final bridge inspection MoDOT determined that closing the bridge until it can be replaced is the only responsible alternative for the traveling public.The bridge could take up to a year to complete. MO 53 will remain closed until the structure is replaced. MoDOT will work with its design staff and consultants to begin plans to replace the structure. An updated alternate route has been discussed and approved with local city and county officials. Crews will sign the alternate route. For those traveling south from MO 53, go south on Route OO, south on US 62, east on County Road 306 and north on Route 53.

Madison County, MO

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LAKE HAMILTON | To help address the poor conditions in Lake Hamilton's parks, Town Council members approved a grant application for $100,000 from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection during a special meeting Friday.

Two $50,000 Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program grants would be used to address the issues in Gunter Park and Sample Park.

In the first phase for Sample Park, town staff would like to replace the roof on the shelter, add a drinking fountain, replace two picnic tables with four recycled-material picnic tables, add four barbecue stands and two trash cans, and extend the water system to the shelter.

Staff also would like to update the signs and replace the wire fencing with the white wood fencing that the rest of the park has.

In future phases, the town would like to pave the parking lot, add a new boat ramp and install new lighting, a playground, a gazebo and modern restrooms.

For the first phase of Gunter Park, staff proposed a plan similar to the one for Sample Park, but added that they would like to redevelop the walking path and develop picnic areas with the grant money.

Town Planner Doug Leonard said the applications will go to the Legislature for approval, and if passed, he expects the town could receive the grant money in July and that construction would start about this time next year.

According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection website, the competitive program's maximum grant is $200,000.

[ Monivette Cordeiro can be reached at monivette.cordeiro@newschief.com or 863-401- 6969. ]

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Published: Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 9:52 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 9:52 p.m.

City officials said building permits for the two 300-foot oceanfront towers at the eastern tip of Oakridge Boulevard, the most expensive beachside development in the citys history, are expected to be OKd within the next few weeks. Site work could start as early as February or March, officials involved with the project said Friday.

Construction will take at least two years, setting up an opening date around spring or fall of 2017 about two years behind earlier hopes for the projects unveiling.

The property owner and developer and other key players say the slower pace doesnt reflect any problems with the project, which includes 501 hotel rooms and 100 condos.

Its a big, complicated process, said City Planner Rich Walton.

Its two major structures and theres a lot of things going on, said Paul Momberger, whos serving as the project manager and planner on the hotel-condo development.

Theres nothing out of the ordinary at this point, said Momberger, director of planning and landscape architecture at Zev Cohen & Associates in Ormond Beach.

Local attorney Rob Merrell, whos been guiding the 1.1 million-square-foot project the past few years, agreed and said he cant wait to see cranes in the air.

Its looking good, Merrell said. Sometimes the process takes longer than you anticipate. Theres no real problems or issues.

Alexey Lysich, whose family-run business owns the 4.5-acre project site south of Seabreeze Boulevard, said he has a letter of intent to partner with Preferred Hotel Group to make his property a franchise hotel.

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Shingle bed: The garden of the late Derek Jarman in Kent warrants inclusion in two new books, The Gardener's Garden and Garden Design Close Up.

Imminent closure of Open Gardens Australia notwithstanding, our appetite for perusing what people do in their gardens shows no sign of abating. While every garden visitor knows that nothing beats poking around people's roses and rills in the flesh, two newly published books let us sample vicariously, at least hundreds of gardens all over the world.

The voluminous The Gardener's Garden was launched this week and provides a horticultural compendium of gardens fashioned (and, just as importantly, preserved) over centuries in Finnish forests, Iranian deserts, New York City rooftops, everywhere really.

It profiles 250 landscapes that date from the 14th century to the present and while the style, planting and climatic conditions are outlined for each, it mostly conveys the gardens' allure through pictures. Photographs have Patrick Blanc walls looking like mountains and 18th-century Russian palaces depicted in all their gilded, folly-filled grandeur.

The Marrakesh expression: Jacques Marjorelle's Morocco garden is also profiled in the new books.

Stretching to almost 500 pages and weighing close to four kilos, this is no portable proposition, however. In the smaller, and consequently more negotiable, Garden Design Close Up, published in September, English writer Emma Reuss narrows the number of "exceptional gardens" to 100 and almost halves the page size.

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Reuss takes gardens the outdoor space attached to a penthouse in Hanover, for instance and distils critical "design ingredients". So for the German courtyard (almost identical in appearance to the penthouse interior, save for the carpet being grass and the sculpture being a collection of multi-stemmed Amelanchier lamarckii in futuristic white planters) she talks about simplicity, humour, limited colour, allegory and unity.

It doesn't make it into the German section of The Gardener's Garden, however, and it is telling just how little crossover between the two books there is. While both have some historic spaces in common (the Loire Valley's Chateau de Villandry, say, or Kyoto's Ryoan-ji) and both describe the off-beat offerings of Derek Jarman on flat shingle spit in Kent and Jacques Majorelle against a backdrop of ultramarine in Marrakesh, there are whole sweeps of gardens that each book has on its own.

It's a sign of both how much there is to choose from, and how subjective any final selection must be. While The Gardener's Garden entries were nominated by a team of consultants around the world, Reuss chose hers with an eye to presenting a "wide range of styles and situations".

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Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 15.

Butler County, MO

Southbound Route 67 will be reduced to one lane while crews perform bridge repairs. The bridge is located at the interchange of 158. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

North and southbound Route 67 will be reduced to one lane while contractor crews perform utility work. This section of road is located just north of the Route 60/67 Interchange. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Monday, Oct. 13 through Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Route W will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews perform utility work. This section of road is located in the area of Shadowbrook Drive. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Monday, Oct. 13 through Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Route 72 in Bollinger County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform shoulders repairs. This section of roadway is located from Old Route 72 to Route B.

Existing lanes of Route 67 from CR 323 to Route 160/158 will be signed as Route C. The north end of Route C (existing Route 67) will remain closed for about two months as work is completed at the intersection of Route 67, Route C, and CR 323.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Northbound Interstate 55 will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of road is located at the 96 mile marker underneath the Route K overpass. Weather permitting, crews will be working from Friday, Oct. 17 through Sunday, Oct. 19 from 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. daily.

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SCRANTON Pennsylvania American Water Company is pitting colleges and universities across the state against each other in a contest in which the environment is the big winner.

Its easy to spot all the water bottles students carry around on a college campus like the University of Scranton.

Some are refillable; many more are buying bottle after bottle.

It fills up and when youre done, it automatically stops.

But Pennsylvania American Water will install a specialized water fountain that refills bottles with cold drinking water at the school that wins the UTap Challenge. It could help save on the use of all those bottles.

The fountains keep track of how many plastic bottles are saved by filling up there.

In our building, in our facility, weve saved over 1,000 bottles just since we started using them, said Pennsylvania American Water official Susan Turcmanovich.

The University of Scranton is one of the schools in the running.

I think it would be wonderful because I drink a lot of water. Instead of always having to grab from the room, its easier to refill and not have to carry, like, seven at a time, said University of Scranton junior Kimberly Heinau.

At the campus store, bottles of water cost a $1.59, so not only could students be saving the environment, they can save some money, too.

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