New Hutterite Colony Planned Near Hillsboro

HILLSBORO, N.D. (AP) — The manager of a proposed new Hutterite colony south of Hillsboro says it will include a new manufacturing plant to build grain handling equipment.

Construction of the Spruce Lane colony is planned to start this spring. A group of families are moving to North Dakota from near Mitchell, S.D.

Project leader Mike Waldner tells the Grand Forks Herald (http://bit.ly/tFdJyn ) that Hutterite colonies normally have about 20 families and 4,000 acres of land.

Hutterites are a religious group. They run communal farms and often have manufacturing operations.

Some neighbors of the proposed colony in Traill County's Bohnsack Township question the development.

They say a sewage lagoon will be near the Elm River, and the manufacturing plant may cause pollution.

Township chairman John Henn says the project complies with local zoning rules.

Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.

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