Woodstock residents want better streets. That’s a clear message from responses to the city’s annual community survey that drew feedback from 1,567 people, nearly 200 fewer than answered the first […]
Visitors to the city of Woodstock website will get a glimpse of the downtown on several pages. A photo in the background shows Van Buren Street, with Papa G’s restaurant […]
Work progresses on a new comprehensive plan for growth and development in Woodstock. But the process has been “somewhat delayed,” City Planner Darrell Moore reported last week. “It’s still on […]
Staff Report news@the woodstockindependent.com Increases in revenue from the state income tax and home rule sales tax helped to keep the city budget in balance during the last fiscal year, […]
Outside the west entrance of the Old Courthouse Center, the American flag has been flapping in the breeze atop a pole that also flies the flag of the state of […]
Woodstock is dipping its toe into water issues caused in part by aging lead pipe water lines that will cost the city millions. Two years ago the City Council awarded […]
Newly rebuilt Dean Street will become something of a pilot project for Woodstock as it starts to realize goals of a 2009 Bicycle Master Plan and other later strategies for […]
Old Courthouse Center is still seeking that elusive “substantial completion” date. “We’re very close,” Woodstock Mayor Mike Turner said last week before the start of a 90-minute media tour of […]
By Eileen Millard news@the woodstockindependent.com After training is completed this summer, the Woodstock Police Department will have a new tool to improve response to events like lost persons, search and […]
By Morgen Neuhauser news@thewoodstockindependent.com Piles of clothes, jewelry, mugs, and more are being sold from driveways throughout Woodstock. Must be garage sale season. Sherry Yang and her family had their […]
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.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
