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GARFIELD Demolition began Friday on the husk of an old school building, clearing the way for an elementary school expected to reduce some of the districts crowding problem.

The New Jersey Schools Development Authority plans to spend $28 million on the future James Madison School Number 10, Authority Chief Executive Officer Charles McKenna said at the site.

The project has two phases, he said: remediation and demolition of the existing structure followed by construction he anticipated would begin before the end of 2015. The building once housed Most Holy Name School and for a time James Madison School.

The new school, at the corner of Passaic Street and Marsellus Place across from the Most Holy Name Church, will be the third in Garfield to receive SDA funding. McKenna said $69 million had been provided for the Garfield Early Childhood Learning Center and Garfield Middle School, as well as 12 grants.

The new building will have nearly 53,000 square feet of space, McKenna said. Superintendent Nicholas Perrapato estimated it would serve about 350 students from kindergarten through the fifth grade.

The school is expected to alleviate some of the crowding the district is experiencing. Of the 5,300 or so students in the school district, more than 1,000 are unhoused, meaning they are being taught in trailers or rented facilities, Perrapato said.

Were just getting overcrowded, Perrapato said of the situation. Mayor Tana Raymond agreed that the new school is much needed in our city. We are overcrowded.

The old building had some sentimental value for the superintendent and the mayor: Most Holy Name School was where Perrapato attended kindergarten through eighth grade in the 1950s and early 1960s, and where Raymond took Catholic doctrine classes in preparation for her First Communion in the 1950s.

Wearing hard hats, they watched as an excavator knocked down two brick columns on the second floor in what was once Perrapatos third-grade classroom.

Denise Petrizzo, owner of Tricon Enterprises Inc., the business contracted to demolish the building, said the process would take about a month: two weeks to knock the building down and two weeks to remove all the materials.

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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - A bridge demolition is going to create a massive traffic jam along a major North Texas corridor this weekend.

The 28th Street bridge is currently located over Interstate-35W, just north of downtown Fort Worth. But in a few days, it will no longer be there. Crews are demolishing the bridge as part of a $1.2 billion road project.

When the project is finished, the interstate will be wider for a six-mile stretch from downtown Fort Worth to Loop 820 to the north. But that project will not wrap up until 2018.

Work on the bridge begins at 9:00 p.m. on Friday night. The interstate will be shut down in both directions until 10:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. All traffic will be diverted onto the frontage road. And then, the same thing happens all over again on Saturday night.

Of course, this all assumes that rain does not have an impact on the scheduled work.

Barriers and equipment are already in place for the demolition to begin on Friday night. Anyone who is planning to be in the downtown Fort Worth area for an event or even holiday shopping should plan ahead for possible delays.

You can always check our traffic map to seek alternate routes.

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If you prefer a full-sized vacuum, Consumer Reports named one from Hoover for $100 a Best Buy.

Need a quick pick-me-up to keep your house looking nice for the holidays? Three new, lightweight stick vacuums from Shark and Dyson not only promise to do the trick but also claim to be as good or better than full-sized vacuums.

So Consumer Reports challenged them with the deep-cleaning test, where dirt is poured on and pressed in, a test normally reserved for full-sized vacuums. The stick vacs couldnt keep up.

For deep-cleaning carpets, suction alone isnt enough. A vacuum needs to have some weight and a powerful brush roll. Stick vacs are generally less than 10 pounds and just wont do the job. But dont count these new stick vacs out. When compared with others, they actually took the top three spots in Consumer Reports tests.

Number one is the Dyson DC 59 Animal. It does an excellent job on pet hair, light carpet cleaning, and bare floors. But the Animal is a beast when it comes to noiseits one of the loudest stick vacuums tested.

Another Dyson, the DC 59 Motorhead, came in a close second. Its a little quieter, though not quite as good on bare floors. Both are cordless, but at maximum power they only run about 7 minutes before they need recharging. And at $500, they cost far more than most decent uprights.

If you dont mind a cord, the Shark Rocket is a more reasonable $180. The way its designed prevents it from cleaning well along the left edge, but it sucks up pet hair like a champ.

If you prefer a full-sized vacuum, Consumer Reports named one from Hoover for $100 a Best Buy. The bagless Hoover WindTunnel T-Series Rewind offers impressive cleaning and superb pet-hair pickup. Plus it does really well at deep-cleaning carpets.

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December 5, 2014 Updated Dec 5, 2014 at 7:49 PM CST

Question: Why do bridge decks freeze up faster than the rest of the roadway?

Answer by Sgt. Neil Dickenson of the Minnesota State Patrol: Bridges are made of steel and concrete which conduct heat well and the heat within the structure is released rapidly from all sides when temperatures drop.

When the bridge loses heat while being hit with freezing wind and air from all sides, it quickly responds matching the dropping temperatures; leaving icy bridge decks. I might add that bridges, by purpose, are often built above cold spots, like rivers, adding to this quick cool system.

A road doesnt have as many avenues for the heat to escape and thus doesnt cool as fast being insulated from the earth below. Additionally, asphalt roads do not conduct heat well and the response to frigid temperature is slower.

Do not use cruise control on snow/icy/wet roads and make sure to turns those headlights on when it is snowing/sleeting/raining/ or foggy.

If you have any questions concerning traffic related laws or issues in Minnesota send your questions to Sgt. Neil Dickenson Minnesota State Patrol at 1131 Mesaba Ave Duluth, MN 55811 (rr at, neil.dickenson@state.mn.us)."

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Norrell Moore shines as Reno in "Anything Goes."

"Special" is the word of the moment on sports radio. Meaning, a player is a few cuts above the usual talent it takes to make it, say, into the NFL. (For instance, might Broncos running back C.J. Anderson be special?) The word has taken the place of "intangibles" from a few seasons back.

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Of course, football fans aren't the only ones hungering for the special this season. Families are gathering in theater lobbies with hopes of a holiday outing that proves a bit transcendent.

More often, they'll be met with the warmly comforting, the satisfyingly nostalgic. Even winking and nudging fare like "The Santaland Diaries"or "Santa's Big Red Sack" are starting to have the glow of the known.

So went the thoughts dancing in my head returning home from "Anything Goes," at Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton.

Director/choreographer Nick Sugar and his game cast deliver a mostly sparkling outing with a few bursts of the special.

Like the Arvada Center with "She Loves Me," Town Hall has avoided the 34th streets, the bah-humbugs and ho-ho-hos and gone with an expanded notion of the festive.

Cole Porter's tart 1934 musical decks the halls differently yet hits nostalgic notes. It also hits notes with the help of Donna Debreceni and her quartet de-lovely and delightful. A number of tunes here have become staples in the Great American Songbook, starting with the opener "I Get a Kick Out of You" and gliding into "You're the Top," "Easy to Love," "It's De-Lovely" and "Anything Goes."

If those sound like the contents of a jukebox musical, it's because composer Porter was so darn hot.

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Darius Rucker performs during the KMLE's Not So Silent Night concert at Comerica Theater, Thursday, December 4th, 2014, in Phoenix, Ariz.(Photo: Jeffrey Lowman/ The Republic)

There were twinkling Christmas trees with giant presents underneath on the stage of Comerica Theatre Thursday as Darius Rucker shared a soulful ballad titled "What God Wants for Christmas" from his new album, "Home for the Holidays." And a loopy Jake Owen got the crowd to sing along on a snippet of "Jingle Bells" after bringing a seven-year-old in a Santa hat onstage to dance.

But KMLE's Not So Silent Night, a benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, wasn't strictly a seasonal concert, allowing the fans to enjoy their favorite country hits by Rucker, Owen, Big & Rich and Gloriana.

After an opening set by Gloriana, a spirited Big Kenny and his partner John Rich treated fans to a set whose highlights ranged from a version of "Lost in This Moment" that found encouraging fans, "Somebody better kiss somebody right now" to "Look at You," They dedicated a poignant performance of "8th of November" to military personnel and veterans, with Rich saying of the soldiers overseas now, "And I hope before they get home, they kill every one of those Isis bastards."

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And they worked their way up to a set-closing "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" with a medley that featured "Tubthumping," "Beverly Hills" and "American Pie," after which they smashed an acoustic guitar on stage.

Owen seemed to be not only in the Christmas spirit but the Christmas spirit with a stripped-down acoustic-guitar-driven set, setting the tone with "This is officially the first show I've played with my new haircut" and adding that he didn't care what anybody thought because "My mama likes it."

After starting the set with "Anywhere With You," he pointed out that his drummer was drunk because Owen was sending him drinks on the four-hour flight from Nashville and that was before they went drinking in Tempe. But however much they drank, it made them just the right amount of loose and loopy.

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Work is underway at the Miller County Courthouse to get rid of the mold in the building.

The mold has caused some of the county offices to move and Thursday, crews were working on the air duct system in the basement of the building. County Judge Larry Burgess said that damage from the faulty air condition system was not as bad as first believed. Burgess said they still hope to have the remediation work completed by the first of the year.

"They didn't find anything significant so it's going to be less expensive instead of replacing some stuff we are going to have it clean" says Judge Burgess.

Burgess said the situation is not causing any health problems for employees and those conducting business at the courthouse.

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