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AGRICULTURE
A lot of piggies going to market Higher demand and lower costs drive applications for expanding hog operations in Illinois THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER AND BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier
RAYMOND – Hog producers in Illinois already have filed half as many expansion notices with state regulators as
they did all of last year. According to the state Department of Agriculture’s website, 61 intent-to-construct applications have been filed so far in 2016. There were 122 such applications in 2015. This year’s applications include one for a new outfit in Whiteside County, near
Erie, and four for new sites in Bureau County – two near Manlius and one each near Thomas and New Bedford – along with six requests to expand existing sites, one in Whiteside, near Erie; in Lee, near Walton; in Ogle, near Esmond; in Carroll, near Shannon; and two in Bureau County, near Mineral and Manlius.
Final regulatory say on new Illinois hog farms rests with the state Department of Agriculture, which notes there are usually 100 to 120 applications for new and expanded hog operations each year. MARKET CONTINUED ON A4
A CLOSER LOOK | CELL PHONE PRIVACY
FULTON
A clean sweep
Lawmakers call for more rules on cell phone scoops
The town crier leads the street scrubbers down Fourth Street on Saturday in downtown Fulton before the start of the parade during Dutch Days. The event, held the first week of May, is a celebration of the city’s Dutch heritage. The first permanent Dutch settlers arrived in 1835 in what would become Fulton. According to the city’s website, it’s unknown why so many immigrants from Holland chose to settle in the area, but settle they did, and by 1891, just under 200 families called Fulton home. Dutch Days’ roots reach back to 1974, when the Community Christian School Auxiliary organized the first authentic Dutch Dinner. Since then, the festival has flourished like a field of tulips in the spring. This year’s event featured arts and crafts, windmill tours, Dutch dancing and costumes, an antique tractor display, a parade, a living history lesson, food and concession stands. Go to saukvalley.com to see video and photos from Dutch Days, and go to page A3 to see more photos from Dutch Days. Go to cityoffulton.us for more information on Fulton and on Dutch Days.
Police devices pretend to be cell towers and dig in to your data SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Law enforcement departments’ powerful devices that mimic cell towers and track phone locations are raising privacy concerns and inspiring legislation to restrict how police can use the technology in criminal investigations. Illinois is among states around the country trying to set rules for the suitcase-sized cell-site simulators, also known as Stingrays, which have the capability to capture data for hundreds or thousands of cellphones in a particular neighborhood – not just the cellphone police are after. “It’s a pretty unusual technology because it’s highly powerful but not very targeted,” said Sen. Daniel Biss, a suburban Chicago Democrat sponsoring legislation to require that law enforcement get search warrants before using the device. The bill cleared the Senate last month with unanimous support and it passed its first House committee Tuesday. The bill also would require police to delete data from people who are not subject to an investigation within 3 days and prohibit them from using data to investigate individuals who were not included in a search warrant. The Chicago Police Department, which is being sued to release records about how it uses this technology, did not take a position on the bill. The Illinois State Police is neutral.
Trenton Dykstra, 7, of Fulton, waits with his broom for the street scrubbing to start Saturday during Fulton’s Dutch Days.
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OGLE COUNTY
New movie comes from our neck of the woods Oregon filmmaker hopes to debut work in Sterling BY CHRIS JOHNSON cxjohnson@shawmedia.com Shaw Media
OREGON – A local actor and filmmaker is working to bring several projects to the big screen, and hopes to debut his most recent work in the Sauk Valley.
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Randall Cropp, a 2007 Oregon High School graduate, wants to premiere his film “Ghebbar Woods” in Sterling – “I am going to have a premiere this summer,” he says – but he’s still ironing out the details. The movie was filmed in part around Oregon and was made
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in found-footage style, the kind popularized by the film “The Blair Witch Project.” Cropp wrote, directed and stars in “Ghebbar Woods,” some of which was shot at Stronghold Center in Oregon.
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Randall Cropp appears in a scene from “Ghebbar Woods,” as seen in this screen capture from the film’s trailer.
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