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Just routine maintenance …: Sewer work along Lincoln Avenue was the usual televising, repairs until …

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A Nicor Gas truck sits damaged among the debris from an explosion Oct. 9 at 321 Lincoln Avenue in Woodstock, while a worker from ComEd checks on equipment of the electric utility. (Independent file photo by Ken Farver)

City contractor Visu-Sewer wasn’t doing any special work on Lincoln Avenue on Oct. 9 when a crew using a “root cutter” struck a gas line. “Visu-Sewer was hired for televising and cleaning of the city sewer system,” City Manager Roscoe Stelford said last week. “They were just making their way around city.” That breach of […]

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Larry Lough

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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Larry Lough

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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