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You may have noticed some trees disappearing on Park Avenue. At Tuesday nights Chico city council meeting, there was a debate on whether or not to remove a tree near the intersection of Park Avenue and E. 20th Street.

A few months ago, requests were put in to remove several trees along Park Avenue that were blocking billboards from the view of drivers. The city and advertisers came to an agreement removing 9 of the trees, pruning 6, and monitoring another 2. Of the trees removed, the city says those were good candidates for removal. They were dying, diseased, and had structural problems like interfering with traffic lights.

City officials say it's a constant struggle to keep residents and businesses happy, while maintaining the city's motto as the city of trees. We're looking at balancing what our needs are from a public landscape, but also not impact a private entity that's getting commerce out of that. So it is definitely a balancing act," said Dan Efseaff, Park and Natural Resource Manager for the city of Chico.

The tree in question is 25 feet tall, one of the taller trees that line Park Avenue. The council voted to keep the tree and instead prune it to make the billboard more visible.

Also at tonights meeting, the council voted to extend the city's audit of financial statements until March.

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Local tree services have their work cut out for them Wednesday.

Hanover-Adams was hit with an overnight storm that resulted in power outages, downed trees and roads covered in ice and slush.

With utility companies focusing on power outages, private tree services took on the task of branch removal in the region.

Amspacher Tree Service had its busiest day since October 2010, said co-owner Louanna Amspacher.

Calls started coming in right at 7 a.m., she said. As of 10 a.m., they had received more than 20 requests for service, mostly in York City.

On average, they only receive between eight and ten calls per day this time of year.

Now, all six of the company's crews are out, with emergency situations such as branches on wires and houses and trees blocking driveways taking priority.

Many of the non-emergency calls will have to wait until tomorrow.

"We're just kicking into high gear," Amspacher said.

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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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