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JEFFERSONVILLE Expect a lot of progress in the next two months on New Hope Services affordable senior housing development at 835 Spring St., says the nonprofits president.

The building, which used to be Jeffersonvilles M. Fine & Sons shirt factory before being turned into the Industrial Terrorplex haunted house, has been under construction since around October 2016, said James Bosley, New Hope Services CEO.

Just two weeks ago, work on the development went vertical, meaning construction crews started adding onto the building instead of just rehabbing the existing structure. Around 50,000-square feet of the development will consist of the original structure, while 24,000-square feet of it will be new.

Now, Bosley said, onlookers will notice swift progress. The project is set to finish construction in October with leases becoming available in November.

New Hope closed with an investor and the bank on the approximately $10 million M. Fine project, called M. Fine on Spring, in September of 2016.

M. Fine on Spring will target the over 100 seniors on New Hopes waiting list for affordable housing in Jeffersonville. New Hope serves 20 counties, and one of its main focuses is housing and community development.

M. Fine on Spring will consist of 51 one- and two-bedroom apartments and contain an on-site fitness center, theater, restaurant, community rooms and outdoor roof terrace.

New Hope is also adding 10 units to its Aberdeen Woods apartments for seniors. The fact that New Hopes waiting list will still be large after both projects are finished shows the need for senior housing in the area, Bosley said.

Still, more seniors are invited to add themselves to the waiting list by calling New Hopes Willow Trace Apartments number at 812-282-6350.

New Hope is also working on giving seniors living in M. Fine on Spring things to do. Theyll be able to access senior services at New Hopes downtown office, of course, but the nonprofit is also planning to buy the former Reeders Cleaners building across the street from M. Fine on Spring and turn it into a coffee shop, wine bar or similar development.

The property needs to be decontaminated due to its former use as a cleaners and a gas station. Attorneys with New Hope and the propertys owner are working on getting their insurance companies to pay for the cleanup costs, and Bosley plans to buy the property after decontamination is finished.

M. Fine on Spring and the Reeders Cleaners development should give downtown Jeffersonville a boost, too, Bosley thinks.

Were cleaning up the whole block between 8th and 9th, he said.

Nathan Pruitt, planning and zoning director with the City of Jeffersonville, said that a senior living facility is a perfect use for the old M. Fine building, which stood vacant for years before being turned into the Industrial Terrorplex. Even after that, it was only in use a month or so during the year.

The M. Fine project is rehabilitating a unique building, he said, as well as extending the downtown area, which isnt as busy after Court Street. Finally, it's bringing more housing to an area that Pruitt believes needs it in an area where the other future housing projects target young people.

New Hope is not receiving funding from the city for its project, but it is from three different sources. Its budget comes from $7.86 million in tax credits from the federal government, $1.5 million in historic tax credits. The final piece of funding comes from the HOME Investment Partnership Program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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The good news for the Cardinals on Friday was that Kevin Siegrist and Dexter Fowler are both on track to make the 10-day disabled list an accurate depiction of how long they will be out. The question it creates is what happens when the time comes for Fowler to return.

John Mozeliak, now carrying the title of president of baseball operations, said that Siegrist (cervical spine strain) and Fowler (right heel spur) had both received anti-inflammatory injections before the teams trip to Arizona, and both were progressing. I think we have some optimism on this being the 10 days, he said.

But in Fowlers absence, Tommy Pham has sparkled in center, with his bat, arm and glove, raising the issue of what to do when Fowler returns. Right now, Mozeliak said, they havent considered those options, but they will.

Any time you sign a free agent of his magnitude and you bring him to do a job, its very delicate to start talking about moving him off, Mozeliak said. Clearly you want to do whats best for the team and finding ways to win and theres no doubt when you look at the last few days with Tommy Pham, hes made some excellent catches and had a positive impact on the team. So we have some time to decide what that next step looks like. Im sure all of us on the decision team will have a talk, but we havent done that yet.

Siegrist is expected to begin baseball-related activities this weekend and is eligible to come off the DL on Monday. Fowler cant do that as easily since his injury is to his heel and the team wants to keep him off that as much as possible so it can heal. Hes working out, Mozeliak said, but not necessarily baseball-related.

Fowler is eligible to come off the DL on Wednesday.

Second baseman Kolten Wong (right tricep strain) also had an anti-inflammatory shot Tuesday, which Mozeliak said had a positive effect but slowed down his return. Wong, out since June 15, is not expected back until after the All-Star break, which would be July 14 at the earliest.

Cardinals first baseman Matt Carpenter was taking grounders and turning double plays at second base during pregame warmups, a precursor to possibly returning, on occasion, to that position.

The Cardinals have an abundance of outfielders, plus a first baseman in Luke Voit, and the easiest way to get an extra one into the lineup would be to put one of them in first and find another place for the versatile Carpenter.

We see the same at-bats you guys see too, manager Mike Matheny said before the game, and watching Jose Martinez, watching Luke Voit, how do we keep them engaged, and is there flexibility? Jose has been one of those that has given us options in the outfield, but when you have a (Randal) Grichuk going like he is and (Stephen) Piscotty and Pham, then Dexter gets mixed back in, its going to be tough to figure out how that fits, so first base is an option. Thats really the only position that Luke Voit plays. If were faced with a tough lefty, thats something were going to at least make sure we have covered. Carp has been taking ground balls all season, all over the place. It was just a little more concentrated work at second today that might give him a little bit more opportunity.

Speaking of tough lefties, Gio Gonzalez, with a 2.87 ERA, is scheduled to start for the Nationals on Saturday.

Carpenter mostly played second in 2013, his breakout season, before moving to third base and, this season, almost exclusively, to first.

The move also works because Wong is out, leading to a variety of players filling in that spot.

We just have to think were at that point with our club to keep our eyes open, keep our options open, Matheny said, and if something looks like it may work, not be afraid to think outside the box.

Two days after former Cardinal Jhonny Peralta was signed to a minor-league contract by the Red Sox and was assigned to the teams Class AAA affiliate in Pawtucket, the Red Sox released another former Cardinal, Allen Craig. Craig, traded to the Red Sox along with Joe Kelly for John Lackey in 2014, was hitting .253 with one home run in 47 games for Pawtucket. (His slugging percentage was .316.) Craig, who hasnt played in the majors since 2015, is in the final year of a five-year contract he signed with the Cardinals in 2013 that pays him $11 million this season, and has a $13 million option for 2018 with a $1 million buyout. The Nationals put shortstop Trea Turner, the major-league leader in stolen bases with 35, on the 10-day disabled list with a fracture in his right wrist and called up infielder Adrian Sanchez.

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Charles Davis, a cornerback on the Virginia football team, recently won $100,000 playing the Virginia Lottery.

Davis was returning from an early morning workout when he stopped to pick up coffee for his mother, Tiffany, at a 7-Eleven in his hometown of Ashburn. He played the lotterys Cash 5 game, selecting numbers on his ticket that his grandmother suggested.

The winning numbers for that drawing were 1-3-4-7-9.

I looked at the numbers on the website after the drawing and said, I won! he said.

Davis, an American Studies major at UVa, played defensive back and wide receiver at Broad Run High School in Ashburn. He then played a postgraduate season (2015) at Fork Union Military Academy for head coach John Shuman. Davis began his collegiate career at Nebraska, participating in the Cornhuskers spring practices in 2016 before transferring to Virginia.

He sat out last season due to NCAA transfer rules.

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NICOSIA, Cyprus Progress has been slow in high-level talks to reunify the ethnically divided island of Cyprus, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday, with security issues in particular standing in the way of a peace accord.

Guterres, whose presence on the third day of talks at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana is intended to give the discussions a boost, also played down suggestions that the body is getting weary of the drawn-out problem, which has been in its in-tray since 1964.

"There is still a lot of work to be done," Guterres told reporters after lunch with the east Mediterranean island's Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, Mustafa Akinci.

"It is slow progress and many outstanding issues are still to be resolved," the U.N. chief said.

Guterres said "new positions showing increased flexibility" in some issues had been relayed and that some gaps between the rival sides have narrowed.

"We're not impatient and we're not threatening the parties in any way," said Guterres, adding that putting a deadline on talks would invite the collapse of the process.

Top diplomats from Cyprus' "guarantors" Greece, Turkey and Britain were also at the summit.

Anastasiades said morning talks chaired by Guterres offered possible ways out of deadlock. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias echoed Anastasiades, calling the U.N. chief's input "useful and beneficial."

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu repeated his view that Crans-Montana is the final stop for Cyprus talks.

"This is the final conference, the last conference and we need to reach a settlement," Cavusoglu told reporters. "So to reach a settlement, we need to agree on all outstanding issues."

Central to negotiations are opposing views over the island's future security agreement on that issue has the potential of unlocking an overall peace accord.

Turkey is rebuffing Greek and Greek Cypriot calls to remove all troops from breakaway northern Cyprus after the island is reunified as a federation. It insists that any peace accord should grant Turkish citizens the right to relocate and transfer money, services and goods to the European Union member island.

Although Cyprus joined the EU in 2004, only the Greek Cypriot southern part that is the seat of the island's internationally recognized government enjoys full benefits.

The island was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded following a coup staged by supporters of union with Greece. Turkey has since stationed more than 35,000 troops in the north.

Turkey and the minority Turkish Cypriots want at least some of the troops to remain and enforce the peace after reunification under revised military rights accorded to the guarantor nations under Cyprus' 1960's constitution.

Greece and the Greek Cypriots want military rights abolished and all Turkish troops removed, replaced instead by a U.N. Security Council-backed international police force.

"We won't allow anyone to ask for all or nothing," Kotzias said before the start of talks Friday.

Cavusoglu on Thursday scolded Greece and Greek Cypriots to "wake up from their dream" that Turkey will withdraw all of its troops from Cyprus and give up military rights there as part of any agreement.

Other unresolved core issues, including a Turkish Cypriot demand to hold the island's future federal presidency on a rotational basis, are being discussed concurrently. But movement on those matters hinges on overcoming the security hurdle, officials said.

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Associated Press writers Jamey Keaten in Geneva, and Elena Becatoros in Athens, Greece, contributed to this report.

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The investigation into the June 2016 murder of a Parsons man is advancing, Labette County Sheriff Darren Eichinger said.

David N. Ellis, 23, was found dead early on Friday morning, June 3, 2016, outside his apartment at 1722 24000 Road, Apt. D. He had been shot.

Labette County 911 dispatch received a call at 1:34 a.m. that day reporting that several people entered into Ellis apartment armed with guns. The group had left at the time the call was made.

Deputies responded and discovered Ellis lying on the ground a short distance from the apartment.He was dead and deputies observed that Ellis had what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the abdomen. In June 2016, former Sheriff Robert Sims said Ellis had been shot multiple times by a semi-automatic weapon. Sims would not provide specifics about how many times or where Ellis was shot or the caliber or type of weapon used.

The crime is believed to be drug related because multiple kinds of drugs were found in the apartment. The suspects initially were described as a white male, a black male and a black female.

Sheriff Eichinger said Friday the case has been actively investigated since he took office in January.

We are making progress, Eichinger said.

Since March, the sheriffs department has had two detectives on staff and they are working on the homicide as well as other cases as they come up.

Eichinger said he could not release more details about the case for fear of tainting the investigation, but he did say detectives continue to work on it and interview potential witnesses.

If you have information on the case, call the sheriffs department at (620) 795-2565.

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Published on June 30th, 2017 | by James Ayre

June 30th, 2017 by James Ayre

The UKs progress towards achieving its climate change goals has been stalling, according to a new report from the UKs Committee on Climate Change advisers. The report argues that new policy initiatives and strategies are needed if the UK is to meet its ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals.

As a reminder here, the UK government is currently pursuing a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050 (as compared to 1990 greenhouse gas emissions levels).

As of right now, the UK has reduced official greenhouse gas emissions by around 42% as compared to 1990 levels, according to the new report.

While that sounds pretty impressive, the report notes that almost all of whats been achieved so far has been in the power and waste sectors. Transport sector and building sector emissions have actually been continuing to rise in recent years.

The good news is we have got half way. But the way we have achieved this is almost entirely focused on the power sector, noted Matthew Bell, chief executive of the committee, in a conversation with Reuters. We cannot extrapolate that to 2050. Power sector emissions have been lowered so much We wont get the remaining distance we need if other sectors dont start contributing.

Reuters provides more: Earlier this week, Britains new climate change minister, Claire Perry, said the government would publish its Clean Growth Plan a framework for how Britain will reduce emissions in the 2020s and 2030s after the parliamentary summer recess. Parliament closes on July 20 and reconvenes on Sept. 5.

The plans release was originally scheduled for late 2016. The delay has been criticized by investors who are looking for policy certainty. Under current policies, Britain is on track to miss its legally-binding emission reduction targets for the mid-2020s onwards, prompting calls for more action in the heat, buildings, industry, transport and agriculture sectors.

The government also needs to present Parliament with detailed measures to address climate risks, such as risks to households and businesses from flooding, so its national adaptation program can be published early next year, the report said.

Itll be interesting to see what exactly the framework in the Clean Growth Plan ends up looking like. While city-level initiatives are in no way sufficient on their own, it is notable that London, and other cities as well, have seemingly begun working harder in recent times to reduce their emissions.

Even though the push is being driven mostly by the significant air pollution problems in London, the eventual imposition of a zero emissions zone in the central part of the city will probably have a pretty notable effect on transport sector emissions there. Its an open question, though, how long well have to wait for that policy to be implemented.

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James Ayre 's background is predominantly in geopolitics and history, but he has an obsessive interest in pretty much everything. After an early life spent in the Imperial Free City of Dortmund, James followed the river Ruhr to Cofbuokheim, where he attended the University of Astnide. And where he also briefly considered entering the coal mining business. He currently writes for a living, on a broad variety of subjects, ranging from science, to politics, to military history, to renewable energy. You can follow his work on Google+.

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Demarest Farms' fall parking plan includes street parking for its customers. Residents who live in the vicinity of the farm say that street parking for the farm's growing customer base is not safe. Catherine Carrera/NorthJersey.com

Demarest Farms is on Wierimus Road in Hillsdale.(Photo: Anne Caruso/NorthJersey.com file photo)

HILLSDALE No agreement was reached Friday but there was "progress" in the negotiations over Demarest Farms' parking, according to the farm's attorney.

The borough and Demarest Farms representatives met Friday morning to negotiate a resolution on parking for patrons of the farm, officials said.

"We aired our views and some progress was made," the farm's attorney, David Marcus, said. Hesaid further details could not be disclosed as the negotiations are ongoing. The representatives plan to meet again July 18.

The issue of where the farm's patrons can parkhas gotten contentious in the borough after recent "pick your own" seasons have drawn thousands of visitors to the 34-acre farm that sits on the corner of Hillsdale Avenue andWierimusRoad.

Farm co-owner JasonDeGisesaid the farm has been using off-site parking for 16 years. After nearby farms closed down, such asDePiero's Farmin Montvale, the number of customers has increased, Marcus has said.

The Borough Council recently passed an ordinance prohibiting parking on the 37 streets surrounding the farm on weekends during business hours from Aug. 30 through Oct. 30.

But the farm, which can accommodate 210 cars on-site, relies on street parking during that time for an estimated 600 vehicles.

The farm is currently seeking approval from the Bergen County Agriculture Development Board foraparking plan that calls for street parking for 600 patrons.

The borough recently offered to allow the farm to use its municipal lot downtown, which the farm would need to place a bid on, borough officials have said. The councilalso recently askedthe school board to allow Demarest Farms to use the 130 spaces at the parking lot at nearby Smith School.

A previous agreement between the school board and farm was terminated after public protest.

"We're working as best we can to support their application," Mayor Doug Frank said Friday.

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