Warren News

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.

WARREN, Ill. -- There will be a public informational meeting about the mega dairy proposed near Nora at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in the Warren High School gym. via Dubuque Telegraph Herald

“No, I just haven't needed to carry one. In fact, I don't hunt. I just love guns -- been shooting them since I was a kid. My uncle was a gun smith and my dad was in the service. I grew up around 'em.”

Kirk Koehn, of Warren, Ill., examines a rifle Saturday at the Big Bore Gun Show. via Dubuque Telegraph Herald

“The new Near North is the biggest redevelopment of an urban area that close to a major downtown in the country”

Miles Warren III, 26, spent seven years of his childhood living in the Cabrini Green public-housing project then moved around the city with his family until they settled in Lincoln Park. via Chicago Tribune

“I was in the Class of 1933 ... We had, probably, less than 30 students. We knew everybody -- and their parents.”

The intersection of O'Plaine Road and Grand Avenue features turn lanes, timed traffic signals and a new bank. via News Sun

“All three of these high-growth service sector jobs pay less than the jobs being replaced”

West-central Illinois has been hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs in recent years. A forum scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Friday in Macomb will look at changing economic conditions and give those in attendance a ... via The Register-Mail