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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Tony Schaefer picks up bricks during the demolition of his home, which was on the National Historic Register. Sadly, the home was completely destroyed by a fire earlier this year. (Robin Zielinski Sun-News)

MESILLA >> On the last day of 2014, Tony Schaefer had a bittersweet sentiment: Out with the old.

On Wednesday, Schaefer and a work crew began demolition of a house that historic preservationists believe was originally built about 1890. It was the house Schaefer has owned for 12 years, and where he and his wife, Annette, raised their children.

A July 10 fire destroyed the home. The cause of the fire remains undetermined. Since then, Schaefer, a former state Public Regulation Commission member, has worked extensively with his insurance company to arrange some kind of settlement on the property. The house is considered a total loss and Schaefer said he had no choice but to raze the house and sell the property.

In 1915, then-owner C.T. Turney enlarged the original house, turning it into a two-story farmhouse that eventually included eight bedrooms and three bathrooms. The second floor of the farm house even had a ballroom. The home was destroyed by fire in July 2014. (Courtesy of Eric Liefeld Mesilla Valley Preservation)

The house has been on the New Mexico and U.S. Historic Registers since 1982.

"I'm afraid all we're going to have now is photos and memories," said Schaefer, his voice cracking. "The main house is structurally unsound. It's an absolutely unsafe condition."

Reluctantly, the Mesilla board of trustees OK'd a demolition permit. But that didn't come before months of evaluation about whether the house could be saved.

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