The Pittston Memorial Library will have a new childrens wing and community room by mid-June.

Construction on the library expansion project is on schedule, library director Anne Hogya said.

Its doing very well, she said.

Hogya said construction should wrap up by June 15. She said the additions walls have already gone up and crews have started to install windows, getting closer every day to a new space for the librarys youngest patrons.

The 5,175-square-foot expansion will include a dedicated childrens wing and a community room featuring smart boards with video-conferencing capabilities.

The librarys current design lacks sufficient space for children to use, Hogya said, with only a small section dedicated on the main floor.

The new wing will encompass 2,500 square feet of the expansion and contain space for children to play, computers, a specific room for children and teen programming and educational murals depicting Pennsylvanias wildlife.

The new childrens wing will be outfitted with all sorts of interactive play toys for the kids, Hogya said. Well be planning more childrens programs.

The rest of the expansion will house a community room that local groups can rent and use for meetings and functions, Hogya said. It will include a main room, a small kitchenette, a coat room, wireless Internet access and a smart board, Anything you would need for any type of business or community function, Hogya said.

She added that theyll be taking reservations to rent the room within a month of so.

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George Clooney, left, and Amal Clooney arrive at the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif.(AP)

George Clooney and his new wife Amal are putting safety first.

Us Weekly reports the new power couple are renovating their Berkshire, England, mansion to include a panic room.

"They are having a panic room installed," a source told the mag. "It'll be fireproof, bombproof, and attack-resistant."

Why do the Clooneys feel the need for the high-security addition to their home?

"Amal has high-profile clients in controversial cases," the source revealed. "She needs to be secure."

Amal and George Clooney married in Sept. 2014 and spent their honeymoon in the 17th-century manor.

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Following stints living in New York and Los Angeles, Drybar co-founder Michael Landau and his wife, Sarah Hutnick, found themselves in a tiny condo in Corona del Mar.

Like so many Southern Californians, the couple craved more outdoor space for themselves and their Australian shepherd Samson and less time commuting to the Drybar offices in Irvine.

After searching for more than six months for a home with a backyard, they came across a 2,500-square-foot ranch house on nearly half an acre in Costa Mesa. The 1950 house was run-down, but it wasn't the house that made an impression. The couple fell in love with the land, which reportedly had been a working farm at one time.

Looking back, Landau described the architectural bones of the four-bedroom, two-bath house as "not that bad."

His contractor, however, refused to work on the house, saying Landau would never be happy with the results.

To update the property, the couple hired architect Josh Heitler, the designer and architect behind the Drybar chain of blow-dry bars. "It was one of those houses that had grown organically," Heitler said. "People kept adding rooms to the house without any real plan."

The architect agreed to the remodel, but when he traveled from his office in New York to Costa Mesa, he was dismayed to find disjointed ceiling heights, awkward roof lines and uneven floor levels. Even worse were the dark interiors lined with knotty pine wood paneling, ceramic tile flooring and dark tongue and groove ceiling planks.

From the beginning, the couple knew they wanted an open floor plan that extended to the backyard they cherished. And they wanted something timeless and modern as well as elegant and comfortable.

Over a two-year period, Heitler took the house down to the studs and reorganized the interiors. In an attempt to create a cohesive layout, he moved the kitchen, which now faces a new dining room and a living room that opens to the outdoors. The absence of walls gives the living space an informal feel and allows ease of movement from room to room.

In what proved to be a fairly straightforward update, Heitler painted the dark ceiling white and installed lights underneath the ceiling beams to brighten the interiors. Additionally, walls on either side of the fireplace were replaced with walls of glass that allow sun and fresh air inside as well as easy access to the exterior living areas. In lieu of conventional doors, Heitler hung barn doors on industrial sliders, which separate the master bedroom from the rest of the house. On the opposing wall, another set of sliders encases the television and windows, allowing them to appear or disappear as the mood strikes.

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ITC is considered one of the highest bidder for Park Hyatt hotel in Goa at Rs515crore positive for ITCs hotel business as its room inventory will grow by another 250 rooms.

ITC Hotels, India's second largest hotel chain,gained over 1% to Rs395.35 on the BSE after it won the bid to acquire Park Hyatt Hotel property in Goa owned by Blue Coast Hotels that had been put up for public auction by IFCI.

ITC has been declared as the highest bidder for Park Hyatt Hotel located at 263-C Arossim, Cansaulim, Goa at Rs515crore. The property has total room inventory of 250 rooms.

The deal valuation stands at Rs2.1 EV/Room, which are decent valuations considering the premium five star hotel in one of the favorite tourist destination in India.

The occupancies and room rentals in Goa have almost remained unchanged for past few years in Goa. For ITC it will good addition to its overall room inventory of hotel business.

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Above: Ed Wetzel works on Metuchen Home, a pen/ink, watercolor rendering of a house in the borough, at his studio. Right: Will, an oil study on canvas by Wetzel. As an artist whose creative roots were fostered in the borough during his youth, Ed Wetzel is now sowing seeds to cultivate the aesthetic skills of others of his ilk.

A lifelong Metuchen resident and owner of The Drawing Room, a gallery and classroom space along Main Street, Wetzels passion for art has bloomed where it was planted.

It has come full circle in a sense, he said. Im very fortunate.

Acknowledging his good fortune seems to be a mantra for Wetzel, perhaps drawing students to him as much as his finely honed art skills.

One of nine children growing up in Metuchen in the 1960s, Wetzel was able to pursue his passion through a barter deal that had him cleaning the pool of neighbor and celebrated artist Joan Arbeiter in return for lessons in portraiture. The well-known feminist artist, who became Wetzels mentor, would later get him a job teaching at duCret School of Art in Plainfield, where he still instructs.

And despite the uncertainty that comes with trying to make a livelihood in the arts, Wetzels parents stood behind him 100 percent, he said.

I think with that many kids, whatever you were interested in and whatever kept you occupied, they would foster, he said.

After high school, he attended the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, also studying at duCret and the Art Students League of New York. In his travels west during his 20s, Wetzel attended the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver and the Academy of Arts in San Francisco.

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The owner of Living Room Nightclub in Mullins, Cynthia Williams, said her business is not a public nuisance, and she plans to fight a judge's order to temporarily shut it down.

SC Circuit Court Judge William Seales granted the City of Mullins a temporary injunction during a hearing last week to shut down the nightclub, according to Captain Joe Graham with Mullins police.

Twelfth Circuit Solicitor Ed Clements said he filed the petition for a temporary injunction in January on behalf of the City of Mullins as a special prosecutor.

The petition says, "Since October 2013 there have been three shootings at the Living Room Club includingthe murder of Keith Anthony Broome on New Year's Eve of 2015. In addition, the Living Room Club has been the source of numerous assaults and thefts. On a regular basis, the police are called to the Living Room Club for loud noise and disturbances of the peace. On several occasions police officers have witnessed the presence of unlawful controlled substances and drug paraphernalia in the Living Room and on its premises."

According to the petition, "The owners and employers of the Living Room Club do not cooperate with police when we are investigating a crime which either occurred in the Club or in the parking lot. Members of the community are intimidated by the Living Room Club's owners and are reluctant to testify as to crimes which occur in the Club."

Williams said whenever there are problems at the club, her employees always call police. She added they cooperate with officers as best they can with the information they have.

She believes her nightclub was shut down due to things beyond her control and disagrees with the number of shootings police have attributed to problems at her club.

"They're really trying to make it a lot worse than what it is. They're saying three shootings," said Williams. She went on to say while Broome was killed at the club, the other shootings were drive by shootings "where somebody rode by and shot at the building, and they're saying it like there was another shooting at this location."

"Murders happen every day every where. I've heard of cases where people have been killed in courtrooms. People have been killed at grocery stores, malls, convenience stores, the location. How can the Living Room murder anybody? That's senseless," she added.

Williams said police have unfairly targeted her business for years, and she said the claims in the petition to close it down are false.

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