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Since then, Johnna Watson has owned the property. She’s been approached by several individuals and business developers with interest in the property over that time, Watson said.
According to the preliminary master plan filed with the county planning and zoning department, the 248-acre site will have 287 single family lots as well as 150 stacked flat apartment units. The single family homes are expected to range in size from 1,600 square feet to 4,500 square feet. A lake already exists on the s...
The plan indicates Woodland Hills will have a homeowners association.
Dewey recently created the plan for a 47-unit development in Franklin and a 16-unit “boutique” residential building in the West End Park neighborhood of Nashville.
Woodland Hills is part of a growing number of residential developments in Dickson County, including another near the interstate in Wyburns Downs. Burns has several residential projects underway or in development, and White Bluff also has at least two new residential areas just off Highway 70.
“Quoi, just two glasses?” asked the headline on the English page of the rolling news station France 24.
It was the incredulous reaction to a campaign launched this week by French health officials seeking to persuade the public to drink no more than two glasses of wine per day – and not every day either.
According to Santé Publique France, almost a quarter of French adults are regularly drinking too much alcohol, and this level of drinking is killing 41,000 people a year, making it the second biggest cause of avoidable deaths in the country after smoking.
“It’s about 10.5 million adults who drink too much. In any case they drink in proportions that increase the risks to their health, including cancers, high blood pressure, cerebral haemorrhage and cardiovascular diseases,” Viet Nguyen-Thanh, head of Santé Publique France, said.
The French have a complicated history with wine, considered a vital part of their national cultural heritage. A 1950s health campaign urged the public to cut down and drink less than a litre of alcohol per meal. School canteens could serve half a litre of wine, cider or beer to pupils under 14 until 1956. Alcohol was b...
“It’s part of French history. The fact that France is a wine manufacturer has certainly played a role when it comes to the French and their relationship to wine,” Nugyen-Thanh added.
World Health Organization figures show the French are far from being the heaviest drinkers in Europe. They have an average annual consumption per person of 12.6 litres of pure alcohol among the over-15s, behind Lithuania’s 15 litres, Germany’s 13.4 litres, Ireland and Luxembourg’s 13 litres each and Latvia’s 12.9 litre...
Santé Publique France advises a maximum of 10 glasses of alcohol, including wine, a week. Its official advice [pdf] states a glass is equivalent to 10cl of wine.
A ten year, multi-million pound campaign to reverse a developing but invisible pollution problem in the waters and meres of the Lake District, has reached a turning point.
The pollutant in question is phosphorus - used in detergents and fertilisers, produced by animal and human waste.
The Bassenthwaite Lake Restoration Project is now reaching its first decade - work is starting to develop a similar project around Windermere.
Eric Hope has been fishing the waters of the Lake District since he was a boy. He casts a plastic lure in the shape of a fish into Derwentwater from his boat, Doghouse 2, knowing that it's unlikely he'll catch a pike anything like as large as he would expect twenty years ago.
"We no longer get the really big ones. Twenty years ago you might catch a 20 pounder. You'd get plenty of 17 or 18 pounders. I can't remember the last time anyone caught an 18 pounder.
"Pike are the top predator and if they're in trouble, the other fish will be as well."
Scientists say there are many possible causes for this - and the sharp decline in the numbers of trout in Windermere.
There are invasive species - of waterweed like crassula, introduced for fish tanks but now swamping parts of the lake bed, or fish like roach and ruffe, often brought in as live bait by anglers. This is now banned.
But two common themes, that have made the water far less suitable for its traditional species, and more suitable for those invasive species, are phosphorus and climate change.
Phosphorus makes compounds called phosphates. You can't see, smell or taste them - but in the long term they're almost as damaging as a supertanker load of crude oil.
Phosphates enrich the water, with the most visible result being blooms of algae, including the blue-green variety that creates a toxic scum at the edge of the lake.
In recent years warning signs have been placed around lakeshores almost every summer, telling people to keep pets and children away.
The warmer the water, the more fertile phosphates make it - so the gradual warming of the lake waters, almost certainly a symptom of climate change, will make matters worse.
Dr Stephen Maberly works for the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. He'll tell you that roughly half the phosphates in Windermere come from the sewage works, and half from the land.
"Farmers will put fertiliser on their fields, and some of that will wash into the lake. Humans use detergents and dishwasher tablets, and human waste too will feed into the lake."
The problem with phosphate chemicals is that they dissolve in water, and flow straight through a sewage works.
Twenty years ago equipment was installed in Windermere's waste water treatment that would make the phosphates turn into solids so they could be screened out. That made a difference for a while - but the level of the compounds still isn't back to where it should be.
Up at the other end of the Lake District, millions of pounds is being spent to try to reduce the amount of phosphates going into Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite.
£4 million per year comes from the Environment Agency, which is leading the restoration project. More comes through what's called "catchment sensitive farming"
Anne Cornthwaite and her son Henry run Ashness Farm. The spectacular views from her farmhouse windows look straight down across Derwentwater to Bassenthwaite.
The run-off from her farmyard manure heap makes a similar journey - just like that from 100 other farms in the area, Ashness Farm was putting too many phosphates into the lakes.
With the help of grants from the catchment sensitive farming project, and her landlord the National Trust, there's now a new building at the end of the farmyard.
It will house the manure until it can be spread on the land next spring. The run-off will be kept in a septic tank.
Down in the valley, more than 200 tourism businesses are being urged to use only phosphate-free detergents. The encouragement's being done by Ruth Kirk, under a scheme called Love Your Lakes.
"It's a very simple message," says Ruth. "The only reason the phosphates are in the detergents and the dishwasher tablets is to make the water soft.
The water in the Lake District is soft anyway, so they're not necessary."
The whole project, for ten years, has dominated the life of John Pinder from the Environment Agency. Now, he says, he can finally see a difference.
"We were seeing phosphate levels in Bassenthwaite, for instance, of round about 32 micrograms per litre - that's a measurement we use.
"We're now down to round about the 23 to 25 mark. The objective that we're aiming for in the long term is round about 14, so we're well on the way.
"The deterioration's been going on probably since the beginning of the 20th century, so we're halfway to achieving that in just ten years."
Another contribution's made at Keswick's sewage works, where as part of a £12 million investment by United Utilities, new equipment means 80 per cent of phosphates will be taken from the outflow, compared by 50% now.
So the phosphates are being stripped out. On the hills, hundreds of trees are being planted to reduce the amount of sediment going into the lake - another cause of changes that according to Dr Ian Winfield from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, could lead to the 'Essexification' of the Lakes.
"I've nothing against Essex, but their lakes have fish like roach and bream, and ours should have cold water species like trout, arctic char and schelley."
But things may have already gone too far.
The rare vendace, a survivor from the ice age, hasn't been seen in Bassenthwaite since 2001.
Luckily, there are still some in Derwentwater and the genetic stock was saved by moving some into lakes in Scotland and elsewhere in the Lake District.
But in the broad flat water that fills the bottom half of the vale of Keswick, we've effectively seen a species become extinct.
Amnesty International is calling for an immediate, full and independent investigation into the brutal killing of a 28-year-old Egyptian man, Khaled Mohammed Said, while in the hands of Egyptian security forces in the city of Alexandria on Sunday, June 6.
Shocking pictures of Khaled Mohammed Said’s body, whose face is almost unrecognizable from the beating he received, at the hands of the Egyptian police and in public according to reports, has been posted on the internet.
"The horrific photographs are shocking evidence of the abuses taking place in Egypt which are in stark contrast to the image of the country depicted today by Egyptian officials to members of the UN Human Rights Council and their reluctant recognition of some minor wrongdoings," said Amnesty International.
"These pictures are a rare, first-hand glimpse of the routine use of brutal force by the Egyptian security forces, who expect to operate in a climate of impunity, with no questions asked.
Although, the exact circumstances surrounding the killing are still being pieced together, what is known is that Khaled Mohammed Said was severely beaten by two plain-clothes police officers in an internet cafe. He was reportedly dragged out of the café and the beating continued until he died.
The family filed a complaint with the prosecutor on Monday, June 7, but was surprised to find that the police had already filed a report claiming Khaled Mohammed Said had died from a drug overdose. The prosecutor has since ordered an autopsy and the investigation is continuing. Amnesty International calls for an invest...
Under the umbrella of Egypt’s 29-year-old state of emergency, abuses by the security forces are routine and rarely punished, and those responsible have only been brought to justice on a very few occasions. The state of emergency was extended for another two years earlier this month, despite repeated calls from states a...
"The Egyptian authorities must respond immediately to this brutal beating and killing in the most robust way. If they do not take action, it will yet again send a clear signal that these abuses may continue and guarantee the perpetrators get away with it," said Amnesty International. "The Egyptian authorities must reig...
In the last few days, SN has carried what is purported to be the final NICIL Forensic Report issued by Mr Anand Goolsarran, the appointed Forensic Auditor (FA) of NICIL. Given the one-sided nature of the report, based on your newspaper articles, I wanted to make a few observations.
At the start of the audits, the FA made it clear that a draft report would be submitted to us and to the Government of Guyana for comment. The only report that I am in receipt of, is a preliminary report totalling 85 pages submitted to us at the end of September. We provided an interim response on October 20 in the for...
Suffice to say, the manner in which the audit process and communication has been conducted, is quite divergent from the manner in which a professional, objective, balanced, independent forensic audit would be completed. Without the benefit of sight of the final report, I can only conclude that Mr Goolsarran has chosen ...
Britain's Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, center, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, take a guided tour of the historical area of Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 25, 2019.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla began their first full day in Cuba Monday with a visit to Old Havana, touring churches, shops and cafes in the narrow cobblestoned streets of the historic center before other events around the capital city.
The heir to the British throne arrived in Cuba Sunday with an agenda including visits to historic sites, a solar park, organic farm, bio-medical research center, a meeting with entrepreneurs, a cultural gala and a dinner with President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
The agenda does not include visits with political dissidents or other critics of Cuba's single-party system, a decision prompting criticism from Cuban exiles.
The Trump Administration has found European and Latin American support for its Venezuela policy but less backing on Cuba, whose government has already withstood a 60-year U.S. embargo without showing any signs of losing its grip on power.
The United Kingdom backs Trump in Venezuela but is eager to expand relations with the island nation, and arranged for Prince Charles to extend his Caribbean tour to Cuba to shore up relations between the two nations.
The royals stopped in at Bohemia, a cafe facing the historic center's iconic Plaza Vieja.
"It's the first time in real life that we receive a real prince at the Cafe Bohemia, although at the Cafe Bohemia all customers are princes," manager Annalisa Gallina said. "It has been a very big emotion, with several days of preparations, from learning how to greet him to learning what he wants to drink or what tea h...
Charles and his Camila also visited the studio of famed former Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, 45. After greeting the dancers, the royal couple watched a performance blending classical, modern and traditional Cuban dance.
The Cuban choreographer spent most of his career in the United Kingdom. Acosta, who retired from the Royal Ballet in 2015, has been appointed to head the Royal Ballet of Birmingham, a position he will assume in 2020.
"I am very excited by this visit," Acosta said. "The fact that he wanted to come here to see us, that for me is very special."
With one site already open in Carpinteria, Rincon Brewery gets ready to bring its craft beers (and lager-marinated tri-tip) to east Ventura.
Deposit in hand, the manufacturer of its 20-barrel brewhouse started to falter, then was taken over by a larger company. Would the second company honor Rincon's rather sizable financial agreement with the first?
Head brewer Chas Cloud still breathes a sigh of relief when telling the story.
"(Co-founder) Kevin Clark and I flew up there (last week) and touched it, so we know it exists," Cloud said with a laugh. "It's just 183 days delayed."
The brewhouse is scheduled to arrive and be lowered into place through the roof this weekend.
In the meantime, Cloud has been brewing Bates Blonde ale, Indicator IPA and tart, fruity beers like Jellybowl POG at Rincon's original Carpinteria location in anticipation of Ventura's big debut, expected sometime between now and mid December.
For status updates on the combination brewery, taproom and restaurant, check the location-specific Facebook page, Rincon Brewery-Ventura, and Instagram account, rinconbreweryventura.
When it opens, the nearly 13,000-square-foot former grocery store that was last home to a Salvation Army thrift shop near Ventura College will include a bar section, a dining room and a waiting area that doubles as a place to grab a keg and/or to browse Rincon Brewery hats and T-shirts.
Windows that look into the brewing area — where a dozen 40-barrel fermenters already stand at attention — can be found in a hallway that leads to the restrooms. Its domed, wood-paneled ceiling echoes the shape of a barrel.
Also featured will be a heated sheltered patio, accessible through an exterior gate and four roll-up doors that open off the interior dining and bar areas. Just beyond is a garden equipped with a 10-by-14 foot sandbox for the kids and a decomposed-granite surface tailor-made for corn hole.
Put it all together, and the Ventura site is roughly four times the size of its Carpinteria counterpart, said general manager Jason Steffenauer.
"There's plenty of room here for people to just stop in for a beer," Steffenauer said, pointing to the 50-foot bar counter and a nearby row of tall-back chairs with matching tables.
Patrons who want to grab a bite to eat with their brews can do so at tables in an interior dining area overseen by the waitstaff.
Despite its much-larger size, the Ventura site has more of a neighborhood feel, said Clark. In part, that's thanks to having room for darts and a shuffleboard, and to being on the edge of a residential area.
"We're also facing what was Two Trees," Clark said, nodding in the direction of the Ventura landmark, now in a regrowth phase following the 2016 demise of one of its titular trees.
Named for a surf spot at the Ventura-Santa Barbara County line, Rincon Brewery debuted four years ago in a Carpinteria bank building. Its co-founders have experience in the hospitality and outdoor-gear industries: Clark and wife Jessica Clark own Corktree Cellars Wine Bar & Bistro in Carpinteria, along with Peebee & Ja...
"This puts us back in touch with our good friends from Patagonia," said Luisa Hyatt. "We are really looking forward to having community events here."
The space will also be used for rotating exhibits by area artists. Works currently on view include paintings by Hilda Kilpatrick-Freyre, photographs by Steve Cattanach and wood-burning pieces by Amber Verdries. On permanent exhibit on an exterior wall next to the parking lot is "Imagine a World Without Them," for which...
Rincon will be one of three Ventura County breweries with an on-site kitchen. (See also Anacapa Brewing Co., which offers a full menu of salads, pastas, burgers and dishes like fried chicken and waffles in downtown Ventura, and Institution Ale Company, which specializes in house-made pretzels and pizzas in Camarillo).
Some brewers are hesitant to share space with a restaurant. Not Cloud, a Ventura resident who was founding head brewer for the former Surf Brewery (now Concrete Jungle Brewing Project) when it debuted in 2011.
"I'm a huge fan. The beer I like to brew is food-friendly in that it tends to be lower in alcohol," Cloud said. Another plus: Serving food can encourage people to stay longer, inspiring them to try a greater range of styles.
Enter chef Steven Stroh, who honed his skills at The Cave at Ventura Wine Co. under founding chef, Gary Daniel, before embarking on a culinary career that has included creating Chef Stroh's Pestos and launching the CaliforniCajun food truck.
At about 4,000 square feet, the kitchen "is by far the largest I've ever worked in," Stroh said.
The Ventura location will open with service of the same menu found at the Carpinteria site. (Think organic red quinoa salads, Bates Blond fish-and-chips, Mary's Free-Range Chicken sandwiches and La Reina lager-marinated tri-tip tacos.) But once he and the crew have those dishes "dialed in," Stroh said, house-made pasta...
On a recent day, Stroh experimented with a recipe that called for stuffing a piece of tri-tip with cheese and wrapping it in bacon before sending it on a quick trip to the deep fryer. He also roasted some carrots, in a nod to the kitchen garden that may be in the brewery's future.
Other signs that the site is nearing completion? On Tuesday, as potential employees wandered in to fill out applications for face-to-face interviews, Clark helped apply an additional coat of epoxy to the already gleaming, maple-and-mahogany bar top.
Also on his to-do list: figuring out what to do with an item unearthed early in the construction process.
"Every place we go, it seems there's a safe waiting for us," Clark said.

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