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Highland Community College's newest addition, a 13,694 square foot health science nursing wing added to the Natural Science and Health building, will be available for students beginning in the fall 2009 ...

Highland Community College's newest addition, a 13,694 square foot health science nursing wing added to the Natural Science and Health building, will be available for students beginning in the fall 2009 ...

The United Steelworkers union and two retirees filed a lawsuit this week against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

State agriculture agency gives OK to construction plans BY DIANA ROEMER Correspondent Tony Carton contributed to this story. FREEPORT — The Illinois Department of Agriculture approved late Friday construction plans for the first farm of what could become the state’s largest dairy operation — Tradition Dairies — in Nora Township.

MEGA DAIRY APPROVED TODAY FOLLOWING AJ BOS RESPONSE TO IDOA QUESTIONS.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture postponed a decision Thursday on the status of a proposed large-scale dairy farm near Nora. The agency said it needs more information on the windbreaks planned for the farm by California dairyman A.J Bos. The windbreak would be part of the odor control system for the farm, which could house nearly 4,500 cows if it is completed.

ERIC PETERMANN - A stretch of gravel road that splits properties owned by A.J. Bos, a California dairy farmer proposing a large facility in Jo Daviess County, is at the center of a debate on the impact that the project may have on nearby residents…

BY DIANA ROEMER & TONY CARTON FREEPORT — A Circuit Court judge in Galena ordered the Illinois Department of Agriculture to appear in court Friday, May 30, to justify its refusal to release to interested parties technical plans filed by contractors working for dairyman A.J. Bos,...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD – Apr 3, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — Antibiotics for breakfast? The drugs are supposed to kill bacteria, not feed them. Yet Harvard researchers have discovered hundreds of germs in soil that literally gobble up antibiotics, able to thrive with the potent drugs as their sole source of nutrition. These bacteria outwit antibiotics in a disturbingly novel way, and now the race is on to figure out just how they do it — in case more dangerous germs that sicken people could develop the same ability. On the other hand, the work explains why the soil doesn't harbor big antibiotic buildups despite use of the drugs in livestock plus human disposal and, well, excretion, too.

NORA — A.J. Bos of California is making progress, but only on half of his proposed dairy operation. The California dairyman who would come to Jo Daviess County filed his responses to additional requests for information with the Illinois Department of Agriculture Friday, but has yet to provide information about expected traffic counts or how he intends to control odor.

By Aaron Chambers and Andrea Zimmermann RRSTAR.COM When Tom Bergstrom imagines a mega-dairy farm near his home in northwestern Illinois, he envisions vast pools of manure contaminating groundwater and the stench of ammonia clouding the air.

3/20/2008 - I have, at the time of this writing, visited nine dairies, two in California, five of the ten in Fair Oaks, Indiana, and two of the three at Three Mile Canyon in Oregon. All of the operations I visited have been built in the past ten years. Most of what I have learned over the past three months has been positive, but my quest for information will continue.

Nora – A line has been drawn in the Jo Daviess County turf over whether or not a proposed dairy has been sited on land that is appropriate for the volume of manure 10,000 cows would produce if the two sites – Tradition North and Tradition South - are approved by the Illinois Department of Agriculture…

A Winslow pig farmer said Wednesday that clay-based manure pits such as the ones planned for the proposed Tradition Dairies in rural Nora are safe for the environment. How does he know?...

Audience questions at a public lecture held Tuesday night in Warren might have raised more issues in the ongoing debate for a proposed large dairy farm in Jo Daviess County.

Louis Bernard Beeler, 85, died at 9:49 a.m. Friday, Feb. 29, 2008, at Alton Memorial Hospital. via Alton Telegraph

Madelon Lena Barber Merle and Amanda Barber of Morris are proud to announce the birth of their daughter, Madelon Lena Barber. via Morris Daily Herald

He's now charged with criminal damage and is being held in the Stephenson County Jail on $25,000 bond. via WIFR

“I would have been really hustling to try to find where I could get it and I don't know what the price would be”

Winnebago County- Winter is only half way through but with more snow than usual this season, the supplies to battle the elements are running out. via WTVO Rockford