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FRG aims higher on downtown Plan for housing, retail could transform village By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com
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Arianne Albright of Crystal Lake (right), inspects radishes before buying them from Troy Edmonds of Edmonds Acres on Tuesday at the Woodstock Farmers Market. Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill into law Saturday that creates a uniform set of health rules statewide for farmers’ markets. House Bill 5657, sponsored by State Rep. Michael Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, and State Sen. David Koehler, D-Peoria, requires vendors to inform consumers of the origin of agricultural products and caps the amount health departments can charge for monitoring farmers markets at $25.
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Customers purchase strawberries from Van Laar’s Fruit Farm Tuesday at the Woodstock Farmers Market.
WOODSTOCK – The layout of the Square makes it easy for shoppers to navigate the vendors selling their home-grown and homemade goods at the twice-weekly Woodstock Farmers Market. It’s not so easy for farmers who wish to sell at multiple markets to navigate the patchwork quilt of regulations that vary from health department to health department. Rules regarding how goods are made, how they’re transported and how they’re stored and displayed vary, sometimes wildly, among the more
You can read the text of House Bill 5657 at www.ilga.gov. You can learn more about the Woodstock Farmers Market at www. woodstockfarmersmarket.org. It is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays through October.
than 100 county and municipal health departments in Illinois. Want to sell home-grown Brussels sprouts? In one county, you can cut them from the stalk. In another, you may need a more
See FARMERS MARKETS, page A10
“Everyone is for safety. We just want it to be common sense.” Michele Aavang, President of the McHenry County Farm Bureau
FOX RIVER GROVE – Over the next few months, Fox River Grove officials will be considering a $250 million development that could potentially transform the village’s downtown. Gart Partners wants to bring in a mixed-use development in three to four phases that would include one- and two-bedroom apartments, office space, retail and a marina. The developer will have to present the plans to the Planning and Economic News sent to Development Commission and the Zoning Board and your phone Appeals before going in front of the Village Board for ultiText the keyword mate approval. NWHFOXRIVERGROVE The 20-acre development to 74574 to sign up includes plans for up to 500 for FOX RIVER GROVE apartments in buildings news text alerts from with five to five-and-a-half the Northwest Herald. stories. Message and data rates Village President Rob- apply. ert Nunamaker said this high-density project is what’s needed for the village, which is essentially landlocked and has no room to expand its borders. “We’re not going to level a cornfield and build a bunch of houses,” Nunamaker said. “Secondly, we have one of the highest tax rates in the county. The only way to get more people supporting the needs of a community is to go up.” Developers say this will be a transit-oriented development, which is meant to boost public transit ridership and reduce automobile congestion, “providing value for both the public and private sectors, while creating a sense of community and place,” according to the Federal Transit Administration. Jordan Glazov, one of the principals of Gart Partners, said this type of project includes putting the most dense, mixed-use development within half a mile of Metra stations. “People can take advantage of the opportunity of the public transportation within walking distance so they don’t have to get into their cars, reducing automobile traffic, reducing pollution, [which] makes for a better neighborhood,” Glazov said. Nunamaker said this project could re-energize Fox River Grove’s downtown. “We need to do something. Downtown is dying,”
See FRG, page A5
Deadly Benghazi attack suspect pleads not guilty before judge By MARK SHERMAN, PETE YOST and ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press WASHINGTON – The Libyan militant accused of masterminding the deadly Benghazi attacks that have become a flashpoint in U.S. politics appeared briefly for the first time in an American courtroom on Saturday, pleading not guilty to a terrorism-related charge nearly two weeks after he was captured by military special forces.
In a 10-minute hearing held amid tight security, Ahmed Abu Khattala spoke just two words, both in Arabic. He replied “yes” when asked to swear to tell the truth and “no” when asked if he was having trouble understanding the proceeding. Abu Khattala becomes the most recent foreign terror suspect to be prosecuted in American courts, a forum the Obama administration contends is both fairer and more efficient than the military tribunal
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process used at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The case is being tried in Washington despite concerns from Republicans in Congress who said he should not be entitled to the protections of the U.S. Abu Khattala legal system. A grand jury indictment handed up under seal Thursday and made public Saturday accuses Abu Khattala of participating in a
conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. That crime is punishable by life in prison. The government said it soon would file more charges against Abu Khattala. During his initial court appearance, the defendant listened via headphones to a translation of the proceedings. He wore a two-piece black track suit, had a beard and
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long curly hair, both mostly gray, and kept his hands, which were not handcuffed, behind his back. He looked impassively at U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola for most of the hearing. Abu Khattala’s court-appointed lawyer, Michelle Peterson, entered the not guilty plea. Facciola ordered the defendant’s continued detention, but the judge did not say where Abu Khattala would be held. The U.S. Marshals Service
said it had taken custody of Abu Khattala, who now was confined to a detention facility in the capital region, ending a harried day for the Libyan. U.S. special forces captured Abu Khattala in Libya two weeks ago, marking the first breakthrough in the investigation. Officials had been since been questioning Abu Khattala aboard a Navy amphibious transport dock ship that transported him to the United
See BENGHAZI, page A5
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