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Plans to replace an unsafe bridge in North Scranton will take a big step forward next week.

Demolition is slated to begin Monday morning on the crumbling Rockwell Avenue bridge.

The Rockwell Avenue bridge was built in 1905 but it has been closed for years because it started to crumble.

PennDOT plans to tear down the current bridge and replace it.

Homeowners say the project can't be finished soon enough.

"It has been a headache for a lot of people," Eleanor Schreiber of North Scranton said.

After being closed for nearly three years, demolition is scheduled to begin Monday morning on the crumbling Rockwell Avenue bridge.

"I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled because it's long overdue," Schreiber said.

Closed in April 2012 because the bridge's stone arch started to fall apart, homeowners have been dealing with delays ever since.

"It's like torture. I don't, I don't like it at all," Daniel Navoczyneski of North Scranton said.

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(TNS) Those loud booming noises that have been coming from McConnell Air Force Base recently are signs of progress.

Crews have been tearing down an old hangar to make way for construction of a three-bay hangar for the new KC-46 refueling tanker.

Demolition of all sorts of existing McConnell structures has been in full force for several months so that more than 350 tons of steel can be brought in over the next two-plus years to build stuff. That, in turn, means a significant boost to the local economy.

One piece of equipment uses a large pincer to rip out huge steel beams from the old hangar.

That pincer pretty much makes those beams look like toothpicks when they cut it, said Ben Davis, project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the construction.

The first of the 36 aircraft targeted for McConnell are supposed to arrive in early 2016.

Construction contractors have their own deadlines to build three hangars to accommodate the KC-46 tankers, which are larger than the KC-135s they are replacing.

Two hangars a one-bay and a two-bay are scheduled to be finished by the end of 2015; the three-bay is set to be done by March 2017.

Things are on schedule, said Neal Ridgeway, project manager for Archer Western Aviation Partners, a joint venture of three companies from Chicago, St. Louis and Oklahoma City that serves as the general contractor for the new hangars. Were pleased with the progress so far.

Demolition of an old four-bay hangar known as Building 1106, where the three-bay hangar will be built should be completed in January.

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Just like it did in 2014.

We saw significant growth in 2012 and more in 2013. In 2014, we had quieter, nominal gains, but its sustainable, said Matt Wilson, a broker associate with Coquina Real Estate and Construction in Flagler Beach.

I expect things to stay the course, said Wilson, 2015 president of the Flagler County Association of Realtors. Its a market we can live with. Were not having the wild rides up and painful falls (of the past).

Permits for new homes locally plunged in 2011, falling to less than 1/12th the total in 2005.

New home construction in the Volusia-Flagler area picked up in 2012, with a 51 percent gain in permits issued. That accelerated in 2013 with a 70 percent increase.

In the first 11 months of 2014, 1,599 permits for new homes were issued in the two counties, a 7.3 percent gain over the same period the previous year.

But as much as new home construction activity has increased, it remains well below the 2005 peak when Volusia-Flagler area builders pulled 8,403 permits.

Sandy Burke Bishop, executive director of the Volusia Building Industry Association, expects growth in the New Year to be at about the same rate as in 2014.

Were not looking at a blazing, crackling fire, but 2015 should be steadily, although slowly, improving, Bishop said. We are happy with the goal of a sustainable pace.

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Diversity of belief and spirituality is reflected in the Springville Museum of Arts 29th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah exhibition. The show, juried and hung in mid November, features works from Utah artists exploring the spiritual life of varied faiths, peoples and denominations. The exhibit will remain up through January 18.

Julie Hall, lead museum educator for the exhibition, said the celebration of spiritual experiences represented in the exhibit finds commonalities amongst varying beliefs.

This show celebrates the diversity of perspectives, faiths, and religious traditions in Utah, but it also seeks to find common ground amid diversity, Hall said. Our educational focus is on the sacred spaces, shared stories, and simple symbols that our visitors can find and relate to whether the artist is Jewish, Muslim, Christian, etc.

The dozens of pieces in this years exhibit encompass artwork from a range of media and styles, including a floor-to-ceiling installation of the Salt Lake City Temple made out of glass Coke bottles and an intricate cast bronze sculpture of an angel. Also exhibited are more traditional pieces created using oil, charcoal and pastels, as well as photography.

We have some exquisite oil paintings of very traditional religious subjects, but we also have symbolic installations and abstract pieces that prompt contemplation and reflection, Hall said. The exhibition is full of profound and beautiful pieces that are inspiring and powerful.

The exhibition was juried last month, with three artists claiming top spots. Placing third amongst the winners was Michael Hall with his bronze, Heart of Sorrow. Glenda Gleave took second with her oil-on-linen piece, Vessels of the Lord, The Garden Farewell. And Sean Diediker claimed first with his oil painting, Medicine Man.

Diediker, a Spanish Fork artist, called on his familys history with the Navajo of New Mexico for the inspiration behind his painting. Medicine Man depicts a Native American in Western hat and traditional Native American robes. Diediker created the painting from numerous photos taken during the years his grandfathers operated a trading post at Star Lake, New Mexico.

The post had dirt floors, Diediker said. My grandfather basically started from scratch and traded rugs and textiles with the local Navajo. The Navajo took my moms family in as their own.

In a nod to his roots, Diediker had a traditional smudge blessing where cedar, sage, sweetgrass and tobacco were burned in an abalone shell and the smoke spread with eagle fathers over the painting and artist performed by Winston Mason, a Native American from the Mandan/Hidatsa Nation of North Dakota. Diediker believes he owes the success of Medicine Man to the traditional blessing.

He blessed it a week before the show and basically said that wherever this painting goes, whatever home or gallery it ends up in, it will be blessed," he said. "Obviously that blessing worked.

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Matron Anita Martins pictured with the seagulls art installation at Cromer Hospital. Picture: ANTONY KELLY

Richard Batson Friday, January 2, 2015 8:00 AM

A flock of gulls are giving a seaside greeting to hospital visitors at Cromer.

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Sixty seagulls are strung close to the ceiling of the airy glass-fronted Atrium entrance.

They are the creation of north Norfolk artist Kate Munro, who has worked with numerous groups and organisations including educational ones and museums.

Her love of the natural world is an underlying theme in most of her work as demonstrated by her sculpture, called Sea Air.

Ms Munro said the brief was to create something with local relevance and it had to be seagulls.

Some of the polycarbonate blue and white birds are also painted with sky and cloud images.

They are suspended about 10m in the air, and it took five nights to install them, said Ms Munro, a 41-year-old mum of three from St Peters Road.

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