INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY KEN FARVER | Outside dining on Benton Street will continue a couple of weeks past the normal mid-October closing of the boardwalk, which was not put up this year to allow the street to be closed for more tables.
Steps the city has taken to help Woodstock businesses during the coronavirus pandemic – including emergency loans, street closings, and outside dining accommodations – will continue well into October. The […]
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Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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