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Food cooperative buys land for store to market local farmers’ products







Good news for Woodstock residents who have mourned the loss of the Swiss Maid Bakery, lo, these past 21 months. Brett Nelson, the owner of By the Dozen Bakery in Machesney Park, told The Woodstock Independent that he plans to reopen the former the former Swiss Maid’s Woodstock location in February or March. “Before Paczki Day,” Nelson […]



Members of the commission voted unanimously to recommend MBI Staffing not be allowed to tear down a “contributing building” of unknown age at 217 W. Judd St. in the city’s Downtown Business Historic Preservation District. MBI CEO Tom Wilson told commissioners he wanted to create more parking for a planned expansion of his business next […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
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