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Adam Buchwald is a luthier. He makes mandolins and guitars for a living in his garage on Burlingtons South Prospect Street. For the most part, his neighbors say they have no problem with the craftsman living and working nearby. But one Barbara Headrick, who resides next door has invested untold hours and resources in an attempt to shut him down.

Buchwalds goal is to be able to make instruments in his own home. Instead, hes involved in a protracted legal dispute that began a year and a half ago in city hall and has now made its way into the courts. A request for the case file at Burlington City Hall yields a hefty stack of documents, including correspondence dating back to July 2012.

By now, anyone in Vermont hoping to erect a wind turbine, build a Walmart or open a methadone clinic knows to expect governmental hurdles and not-in-my-backyard opposition. But smaller disputes inspire no less passion and can take just as long to resolve.

Whats so frustrating is that one person can drag something like this on forever and ever, and it could actually get to the Vermont Supreme Court and by law they have to take the case and that just boggles my mind, Buchwald said.

Headrick counters that the noise from Buchwalds power tools shatters her solitude, and his shop threatens to pave the way for more disruption as home-based businesses invade residential neighborhoods.

Simply stated, a growing commercial woodworking business does not belong in a low-density residential neighborhood, she wrote in a statement to Seven Days. Headrick declined requests to be interviewed for this story in person or over the phone.

This imbroglio has ensnared city officials, lawyers and neighbors. Last month, it landed in the environmental division of Vermont Superior Court, where the city plans to defend its decision to let Buchwald work where he lives.

David White, Burlingtons director of planning and zoning, said that the case has certainly taken a lot of time and effort on the part of the city.

Burlington Development Review Board chair Austin Hart concurred, I think that it is fair to say that this particular home occupation application was particularly contentious. People do, however, get emotional about their homes.

Adam Buchwald looks the part of a banjo-playing dad back in Vermont after a stint playing music in Brooklyn: plaid shirt, dark-frame glasses, well-groomed beard.

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Another $200,000 is coming down the track for the planned renovations and upgrade to the former Souderton train station.

Construction work at the station, two accompanying buildings and the surrounding parking lot area is expected to begin this year. Last year, the borough began leasing the site from SEPTA. After the upgrade and renovations, the buildings will be subleased to businesses in an economic development move.

On-scene work to design the project started recently.

The engineers are just starting survey work and field measurements, Souderton Borough Manager Mike Coll said.

The winter weather has hampered that work, though, he said.

The snow has been slowing that down quite a bit, he said.

Two grants totaling $1.5 million were previously approved for the train station project.

In November of last year, Coll said the borough had applied for another $200,000 state grant in 2011, but hadnt received a response and assumed it would not get the grant. The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development had recently contacted him about that grant, though, raising the hope the borough would get the grant, he said.

The state now has approved that grant, Coll said at the Feb. 3 Souderton Borough Council meeting at which the board approved the grant agreement.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Several eastern Iowa school districts held special elections tonight.

Voters in the Clear Creek Amana School District agreed to pay for a fourth elementary school and additions to the middle and high schools. The $48 million bond issue needed 60 percent to pass and received 79 percent, or 989 votes. 268 people voted against the bond.

For a second time Voters said "no" to a new gym in the Williamsburg School District. The $6.7 million proposal needed 60 percent to pass, but only received 56 percent, or 703 votes. 556 people, or 44 percent, voted against the new gymnasium.

Voters approved a school levy in the Central City School District to pay for building projects. The school levy is a PPLE, or physical plant and equipment levy. It needed a simple majority to pass. It passed with 56.7 percent of the vote, or 101 votes. 77 people, or 43 percent, voted against it.

In the North Linn School District, voters failed to pass a PPLE that would have paid for one-to-one computers in the high school, new buses and building upgrades. 58 percent, or 331 people voted against the levy. 236 people or 41.6 percent of voters voted in favor of the levy.

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Collins Road Theatres in northeast Cedar Rapids will be closed most of next week to install new seating in three of the five movie theaters as well as for additional remodeling.

Bruce Taylor, owner of the 10-year-old, second-run movie complex, said it will be closed from Monday, Feb. 10, through Thursday, Feb. 13. Taylor said certain shows also will be dropped on Sunday evening, Feb. 9, to get a head start on the changes.

The theater will reopen on Friday, Feb. 14.

Taylor said the three auditoriums slated for new seating will have fewer rows to provide at least four inches of extra leg room. He said seating in the remaining two theaters likely will be upgraded in the near future.

Taylor said the new two-tone seats, which have been displayed recently in the theater lobby, have a higher back that the old ones. He said the theater will provide booster seats for young children to help them see the movie screen.

Taylor said the remodeling also will include replacing wall fabric, painting and adding 7.1 sound. The latter system provides more surround sound than 5.1 sound by adding two speakers to the back wall of the auditorium with two more channels of audio.

The upgrades will include new digital processors to handle the 7.1 sound. Taylor said that will allow him to provide descriptive narration of movies for customers who are blind or visually impaired.

We will use the same little radio receivers that we provide to our hearing-impaired customers, Taylor said. We will plug the transmitter into a different output that provides descriptive narration of a movie.

Descriptive narration provides an audio description of what the characters are doing on the screen, visual elements such costumes and facial expressions, and any printed text.

Taylor said the remodeling project will cost around $100,000 to complete.

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BUFFALO CENTER | The North Iowa Community School is about ready to unveil a new addition that Superintendent Cory Myer describes as "a mini YMCA."

The addition includes a new gymnasium that has reinforced walls to make it a tornado safe room.

It also has a weight room and locker rooms on the first floor, as well as a fitness room and a suspended walking track on the second floor.

A ribbon cutting ceremony and open house will take place on Sunday, Feb. 9.

The whole facility will be open to members of the public who take an annual training class and are issued key cards. The annual fee is $50.

Myer said the public will be able to use the facility 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as long as students are not using it.

He said members of the public have been allowed access to the school building for a number of years for fitness purposes, but the new, high-end fitness equipment and walking track give them many more options.

People are particularly excited about the track, which gives them somewhere to walk during the winter, according to Myer.

He said the new gym doesn't have seating because it isn't big enough for that. It will be used as a practice gym by school sports teams, AAU teams and community teams. The district will continue to use the older gym at the school for competition.

The safe room has precast concrete walls almost a foot thick that can withstand a direct hit from a tornado, according to Myer.

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