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Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Thursday, November 20.

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.

Cape Girardeau, MO

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The Fairfield Senior Center is looking for middle school and high school students willing to shovel snow for senior citizens and the disabled -- either as volunteers or for pay.

The center said it wants to build a network of youths in grades six through 12 who could be enlisted to shovel walkways, sidewalks, steps and driveways for older residents.

Scout troops and other youth groups interested in volunteer community-service opportunities would be ideal, according to senior center officials, but the network also could match youths with seniors willing to pay shovelers.

For paid snow removal, fees would be negotiated by the shoveler and the customer, the senior center said, but it suggested fees of $10 per hour.

The shoveler network has been proposed in response to what the senior center said were "numerous" calls to the first selectman's office over the past two winters from seniors looking for help clearing snow from their walks and driveways.

No goal has been set for the number of enlisted shovelers, and the center said it had no estimate of how many seniors and disabled might use the service if it is offered.

Fairfield has nearly 9,000 residents age 64 and older, according to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, about 15 percent of its population.

The senior center envisions a system under which youths would register as shovelers, and their names and contact information would be given to seniors or disabled people who call the center seeking shovelers.

Seniors would be responsible for providing shovels, ice scrapers and other equipment needed to do the job, the center said. Shovelers would have to provide their own transportation to each job.

To register, a student would have to submit a permission form signed by a parent allowing the center to share the youth's name and contact information with seniors. Parents would have to provide health insurance to cover any injury or illness sustained while shoveling, and they would have to sign a waiver of liability, the senior center said.

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By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) - Streets are subdued, marketplaces are quiet and people are on edge in Jewish areas of Jerusalem, where Arabs have been using meat cleavers, guns, screwdrivers and even their cars in deadly, small-scale attacks.

The holy city - which Israel says must forever stay united - has rarely seemed more divided.

In their 47th year of occupation, Palestinians are seething with anger over neglect and discrimination, continued Jewish settlement in their areas, and a belief, despite official denials, that Israel is scheming to take over their most revered site.

This anger, coupled with Jewish fears of further violence, has left the city's 800,000 residents apprehensive, seemingly united in the belief that things will get worse before they get better.

"I'm really not safe, and before leaving the house I think twice," said Sara Levi, a 22-year-old stay at home mother. "We are not calm, and we hope there is going to be an end to this, and that it is not just a beginning."

Levi spoke as she waited at a stop for Jerusalem's light rail train - a frequent target of Palestinian violence. The trains, meant to serve as a symbol of a united city, are frequently pelted with stones when passing through Palestinian areas. There have been two deadly attacks in recent weeks by ramming cars into crowded stations.

In a separate attack, a Palestinian gunman on a motorcycle shot and seriously wounded a prominent Jewish activist who has pushed for greater Jewish access to the city's most sensitive holy site - the hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

The violence reached a new turning point Tuesday when two Palestinian attackers burst into a crowded synagogue during morning prayers, killing four worshippers and a policeman with the meat cleavers and gunfire. It was the deadliest attack in the city since 2008, and gruesome pictures of blood-covered holy books and prayer shawls shocked a country long accustomed to political violence.

Those deaths brought to 11 the number of people killed by Palestinian attacks - most of them in Jerusalem - but also in Tel Aviv and the West Bank in recent weeks. At least five Palestinians involved in the attacks were killed.

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By JIM KUHNHENN and ERICA WERNER Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he will sidestep Congress and order his own federal action on immigration - in measures that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people illegally in the U.S. and set up one of the most pitched partisan confrontations of his presidency.

Obama declared that Washington has allowed America's immigration problem "to fester for too long."

The president will use an 8 p.m. EST address Thursday to announce his measures and will sign the executive actions during a rally in Las Vegas on Friday. In doing so, Obama will be taking an aggressive stand that he had once insisted was beyond his presidential power.

As many as 5 million people in the country illegally are likely to be protected from deportation and made eligible for work permits under the plan. They would not have a path to citizenship, however, and the actions could be reversed by a new president in two years. Officials said the eligible immigrants would not be entitled to federal benefits - including health care tax credits - under Obama's plan.

The 5 million estimate includes extending deportation protections to parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for five years. The president also is likely to expand his 2-year-old program that protects young immigrants from deportation. The administration had considered extending the executive action to parents of young immigrants covered under the 2012 Obama directive, but immigration advocates said they did not expect the parents to be included in the final plan.

"What I'm going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system better, even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem," Obama said in a video on Facebook.

Laying the groundwork for his actions, Obama invited 18 Democratic members of the House and Senate - but no Republicans - to dinner at the White House on Wednesday. Among the networks airing his Thursday speech will be Univision, which will interrupt the Latin Grammys to carry his remarks, assuring him a huge Spanish-speaking audience. The major broadcast networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - were not planning to air the speech, but cable news networks were.

Obama is to speak at Las Vegas' Del Sol High School on Friday, a school with a large population of non-English speaking students where Obama unveiled his blueprint for comprehensive immigration legislation in 2013.

Republicans vehemently oppose the president's likely actions but are deeply divided and have spent much of the week intensely debating how to respond. Some conservative members have threatened to pursue a government shutdown and one - two-term Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama - raised the specter of impeachment on Wednesday.

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Tree talk dominated a meeting of the Edgartown board of selectmen Monday, as they reviewed three requests for shade tree removals.

In Edgartown, trees that stand within a public way cannot be removed without a hearing in front of the selectmen.

One hearing concerned a property at 96 South Summer street, where major renovations will bring the facade of the house to face the street.

Landscape architect Kristen Reimann presented her proposal, which would remove seven trees at the downtown property, and replace them with two to three American elms.

Most of them are either in fair or poor condition, Ms. Reimann explained of the trees slated to come down.

The trees form part of a vegetated screen that currently shields the house from the street, and selectmen said they wished to preserve the wooded character of the public way.

It would be nice to see a plan that would put back the canopy that is being removed, said selectman Michael Donaroma, who added that the trees obscure the wiring that hangs over the street.

He said replacing seven trees with three seemed weak to him. The tree group includes a sycamore maple, a Japanese maple, a weeping willow, an apple tree and a pair of American elms.

But Ms. Reimann said the planned renovations would include a street-facing porch, which makes planting shade trees in front undesirable.

It is going to be difficult to recreate whats there because we are changing essentially the facade of the house on the street, and the current house is set much further back, Ms. Reimann said. So it is going to be a change in the character, in the relationship of the house to the street.

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WEST LEBANON The city airport plans to remove 32 acres of trees on airport property by the end of next year, according to a recently released final environmental assessment for the proposed obstruction removal project at Lebanon Municipal Airport.

The assessment says the alternative tree removal project would remove trees and add two new hazard beacons with less impact on the neighborhood than the original plan.

This plan puts the airport in closer compliance with FAA regulations regarding obstructions, but does not remove any hillside or extend any airport runways, said airport director Richard Dyment Tuesday.

This alternative project would remove 32 acres of tree obstruction south of Runway 25 to the airport property line.

We really need to clear the trees out to the property line to clear out the tree line, Dyment said. These trees that were working on are close to the runway and really need to be taken back.

The airport property abuts wooded land owned by the city, which would remain as a buffer between the airport and a nearby neighborhood.

The tree removal is expected to increase airport visibility for about six homes on Poverty Lane, the final assessment says.

The project also includes lighting changes, said Dyment.Were removing 38 obstruction lights and replacing them with two tall hazards beacons, Dyment said.The mitigation and permitting process for the project has begun, Dyment said.

The project is expected to go out to bid in the spring. The trees would be removed during the winter of 2015-16, Dyment said.

We need to do some other work before that, but the physical cutting of the tress wont happen until the winter of 2015-16, he said.

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Perth's Bell Tower - state icon or giant satanic phallus? Photo: Jessica Hromas

Is there satanic symbolism hidden in the Perth Bell Tower? Are there swastikas woven in the tile work at the Peninsula Hotel in Maylands? Is Perth's best-known cycling "hobo" actually super rich?

According to local mythbuster David Bell, the answers are "no", "no" and "yet to be determined".

The West Perth journalisthas set up a podcast named True Perth Tales, to unravel the hidden secrets of Perth and tell the yarns of some of the more bizarre and interesting characters that dwell in our town.

In a recent Halloween episode, the 28-year-old tried to get to the bottom of one of Perth's weirdest spooky tales: the reputed satanic links of the Bell Tower.

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"It's all in the numerology I'm told, plus the sexual symbolism of the tower and black swans, which are also linked to demonic rituals," he laughed.

"The combination of factors was so ridiculous that the myth didn't need debunking."

Mr Bell said the zany myth of swastikas in the old foyer of the Peninsula Hotel was just as easy to debunk.

"I spent about 12 seconds Googling around before, I found it was complete bullshit," he said.

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Perth's Bell Tower - state icon or giant satanic phallus? Photo: Jessica Hromas

Is there satanic symbolism hidden in the Perth Bell Tower? Are there swastikas woven in the tile work at the Peninsula Hotel in Maylands? Is Perth's best-known cycling "hobo" actually super rich?

According to local mythbuster David Bell, the answers are "no", "no" and "yet to be determined".

The West Perth journalisthas set up a podcast named True Perth Tales, to unravel the hidden secrets of Perth and tell the yarns of some of the more bizarre and interesting characters that dwell in our town.

In a recent Halloween episode, the 28-year-old tried to get to the bottom of one of Perth's weirdest spooky tales: the reputed satanic links of the Bell Tower.

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"It's all in the numerology I'm told, plus the sexual symbolism of the tower and black swans, which are also linked to demonic rituals," he laughed.

"The combination of factors was so ridiculous that the myth didn't need debunking."

Mr Bell said the zany myth of swastikas in the old foyer of the Peninsula Hotel was just as easy to debunk.

"I spent about 12 seconds Googling around before, I found it was complete bullshit," he said.

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The city of Seattle says a Belltown bar and nightclub has a laundry list of violations, including lacking an automatic fire sprinkler system.

It filed court documents on Nov. 14 asking a municipal court judge to require the Ampersand Lounge to pay civil penalties or even shut down until it is in compliance.

The city also cites a pattern of violating the Seattle Fire Code, including going over capacity.

I'm very frustrated with city, fire marshal, and police, manager Dhiresh Tewari said. There are more problems that they need to take care of rather than this Mickey Mouse [business].

KIRO 7 was the first to show Tewari the citys complaint.

It states that the business has failed to install an automatic sprinkler system, as required in a Notice of Violation from the Seattle Fire Department from 2012.

They're saying basically in this that they've given you time, KIRO 7 said.

No, we need more time! Tewari said. This is a $200,000 investment.

The city also states that the lounge is only allowed to have 94 people inside but has, on several occasions, allowed hundreds more, including approximately 300 people on Oct. 12, 2014.

Tewari said he didnt recall the event. He said the club will not be going over capacity again.

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