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Rich Engel and Michele Morris outside Bride Row on Penn Avenue.

House tours are fun, especially when you don't have bottlenecks of tourists in the upstairs hallways gawking at chandeliers and other effects that prompt envy. I prefer tours that provoke inspiration, ones with before-and-after pictures.

The tour I took the other day of two houses on Bride Row on Penn Avenue in Garfield was before before; you'd have to unboard the windows to see well enough to take photos.

Bride Row is so named because the eight houses in the row are set off by a trompe l'oeil mural of a bride ascending steps to what looks like a ninth house; the mural is on the flat side of a commercial building.

Rich Engel, Mainstreets Program manager for the Bloomfield-Garfield Corp., is working with Friendship Development Associates to market for redevelopment the five houses the Friendship group owns.

Last Friday and Saturday, he led tours for developers and extended the chance for me to see them. Of course I wanted to see the insides of these boarded-up century-old houses. There's no house tour I like better than those that are spooky, suggestive and a little risky.

On our tours of 5439 and 5441 Penn Ave., we entered around back. When Mr. Engel opened the door, the vacant-house smell came rushing out cold and familiar, a cross between cellars and attics, damp trunks and old books.

We stepped gingerly over panels of foam and debris in the hallways and the rooms, our flashlight beams bouncing over peeling plaster as we stepped around toys, clothes, chairs, a toilet, bulging garbage bags, cushions, pieces of wood and bedding.

It was as if a tornado had torn through these homes, strewing the contents but leaving the structure intact. In one room, a pink plastic dollhouse lay on its roof.

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CLINTON The Clinton School Board will meet tonight, with the board to consider the approval of the schematic design of the new middle school and the design and development of an innovation classroom at Clinton High School.

The Clinton Middle School Design Team has forwarded their recommendation to the board for approval of the schematic design and also is seeking approval to authorize moving into the design development phase.

Also the district and Clinton High School have been working on development plans with FRK for the past six months to remodel an unused space at Clinton High School into the new innovation classroom. The renovation is paid for through personal donations, company donations, grants and capital improvement funds.

The board also will consider approval of a change order to install a new roof top unit for heating and cooling for the remodeled administration center at a cost of $49,425. This will leave the contingency for the remodeling project at $5,307, according to the district. The Estes construction manager on the project states that the project will come in at the original budget projection.

The board also will consider approval of a contract between the Clinton School District and Clinton Community College to provide a program in construction trades for the 2012-2013 school year.

The board also will approve the contract between the district and CCC to provide the automotive technology program for the upcoming school year.

The Boundary Task Force, led by Jeff Reed, also will make its recommendation for boundary changes. If approved by the board, the changes would be put in place for the 2012-2013 school year.

The task force has been meeting since November to examine current and future enrollment patterns for the four elementary buildings. The recommendation will only affect the elementary schools.

Also on the agenda are a presentation by Clinton High School Principal Karinne Tharaldson Jones and members of the Clinton High School Family and Consumer Science Department about how a Childhood Development curriculum may impact course opportunities and provide an extended vocational strand to CHS students.

The board will consider a bid from Hartz Lock for a cost of $55,734 to replace all doors and door frames at Whittier Elementary School through the use of a $100,000 Harkin Fire-Safety grant and the adoption of a service delivery plan to address special education concerns as presented to the district.

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Monday, March 5, 2012 | 5:42 p.m.

CARSON CITY The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected a petition by Bank of America that it be allowed to foreclose on an office building in Las Vegas that reportedly has defaulted on a $12.2 million loan.

The bank says it loaned the money for construction of the building at Town Center Drive and the Las Vegas Beltway in August 2005, and the loan has been modified five times and the due date extended twice.

Bank of America said the office complex failed to come through in September 2011 with the full repayment plus interest as agreed to.

It sought a receiver to collect rent and planned to sell the property in February.

District Judge Elizabeth Goff Gonzalez, however, granted a temporary restraining order halting a foreclosure until the court has more hearings.

Bank of America, through its lawyers, asked the Supreme Court for writ of prohibition to overturn Gonzalez ruling.

The Supreme Court said Gonzales has not exceeded her authority in issuing the temporary restraining order.

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City and County officials L-R Rensselaer County Chamber President, Lynn Kopka Troy City Council President, Kris Thompson representative for Senator Roy McDonald, Elizabeth Young of the Troy BID, Troy Mayor Lou Rosamilia, County Exec Kathy Jimino, Michael Uccellini President and CEO United Group of Companies, Nigham Sheikh Subway oencer cut the ribbon at the at City Station West, second from right. (Mike McMahon /The Record)

TROY The first business to occupy the retail space at City Station West opened its doors Monday, as the Subway sandwich shop held a ribbon cutting attended by a host of local officials.

Subway, which has another downtown Troy location in Monument Square, became the latest member of the Downtown Troy Business Improvement District, and BID Executive Director Elizabeth Young said it was exciting to finally welcome City Stations first commercial tenant.

"Projects like City Station have proven to be an economic booster to the citys businesses, adding to the growing vitality of Troy and solidifying the connection between the citys colleges and its downtown," Young said. "We are overjoyed to be cutting the ribbon on the first new business in a new building, on a whole new block here in our downtown."

The City Station project received stimulus funding through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, which spurred a $7 million road and infrastructure reconstruction project along the Congress-Ferry corridor that was finished in November 2010. City Station, located on Sixth Avenue between Congress and Ferry streets, was completed during a whirlwind six-month construction schedule last year. It has 48 apartments that are reserved for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate students, and the buildings first floor has 17,000 square feet of retail space, with future tenants Paesans Pizza, Supercuts and Mamora Caf set to move in soon.

Another identical complex, City Station South, is currently under construction across the street, Young said, and is scheduled to be completed sometime in August. The success of the current complex and speed with which the second is coming together is exciting, she said.

"As we stood there today cutting the ribbon, you could hear the large pile-driver that was at work across the street (and) it kind of made me realize that we really have come full circle, but a whole new stage has started," Young said.

Subway owner Nigham Sheikh, who participated in the ribbon-cutting, said it felt "very good" to finally open the business.

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The former owner of Columbia Park Golf Course plans to build an office building and a restaurant just off Columbia Center Boulevard with some of the $2.46 million he earned in a lawsuit settlement with the city of Kennewick.

Gary Long Jr. has requested permits to build a 9,500-square-foot office complex and a 4,000-square-foot restaurant at 901 N. Colorado St., where the Tri-City Development Council, or TRIDEC, used to have its offices.

Nick Kovarik, Long's attorney, said construction could begin this summer if the site plan permits are done in time.

The site includes a strip of land that Long got from the city in May 2010 to resolve a second dispute with the city over taking back the golf course and reimbursing him for his long-term investments in the course.

The settlement approved was separate from Long's breach of contract lawsuit over developing the golf course amenities to include an RV park.

At the time, the city council agreed to give Long the strip of land in a 6-1 vote, with Councilman John Hubbard opposed. The agreement gave Long $250,000 in cash and a quit claim deed to the strip of land where the Toyota Center sign is located, said Kovarik, who is based in Spokane.

That strip will provide more spaces for parking for Long's new buildings. The marquee sign will remain in place.

"We plan to have landscaping all along Columbia Center Boulevard with trees," Kovarik said.

Long's two new buildings also will require removing a pork chop-shaped island at the intersection and repositioning of the light signals, which Kovarik said will make a safer intersection.

He declined to give more details on the plans for the buildings.

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Residents of the Bishops Landing subdivision off Route 139 can see the tombstones from their back porches.

From some of the townhouses in the complex, the cemetery cant be more than 40 or 50 feet away.

So when bacterial contamination started to show up in the developments wells, people started to, as one town official put it, put two and two together.

The implication is gruesome, but state and local officials wont say directly that the cemetery is responsible for the contamination.

But whats certain is that the water in the wells is no good, and Bishops Landing residents will be footing the bill for the fix.

The 23-unit complex had been using a four-well water system for more than 20 years that was never registered with the state, a Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said last week.

The system is too close to, in addition to the graveyard, Route 139 and the paved access road to the cemetery all sources of potential groundwater contamination, officials say.

Health Agent Sandra Gabriel said she got a call from state Department of Environmental Protection in July of 2010 saying that E.coli bacteria had been found in the water.

There have been quite a number (of tests) with total coliform bacteria in the water, said Ed Coletta of the DEP.

Gabriel went to the development to advise residents to boil water before drinking it. She said the Board of Health has been working closely with the neighbors.

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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

PARISHIONERS of the Beato Pedro Calungsod church in Barangay Cantabaco, Toledo City celebrated the last beatification anniversary of their patron saint yesterday.

The church, located on a hill, was filled to capacity with local devotees and residents from nearby villages.

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Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma, who led the concelebrated mass, said the weather 12 years ago in Rome was fair just like the weather yesterday.

Our celebration today is joyful, he said, referring to the coming canonization of Calungsod on Oct. 21.

Palma reminded the people in his homily to follow the example of the Visayan martyr, who was beatified by Blessed Pope John Paul II in Rome on March 5, 2000.

Faith

He said Pope Benedict XVI has declared the year 2012 as a Year of Faith. The Catholic Church also marks the 50th year since the Second Vatican Council was convened and the 20th year since the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

This year, we hope that we give importance to faith, he said.

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