Woodstock streets will get $12 million worth of work next year as the city resumes the aggressive street improvement program that was interrupted this year by the COVID-19 pandemic. And […]
César Artemio González-Navarro, mayor of Guadalupe, Zacatecas, in Mexico, extended an invitation to Mayor Mike Turner and the Woodstock City Council to attend his inauguration next month. Navarro visited Woodstock […]
With a little guidance from his Auntie Ellen, Ken Wundrow cornered the market on presentation, and it landed him on the mainstage of the Amazon Prime series, “Lightyears.” “I am […]
Mayor Mike Turner was hesitant to guess how many local businesses would be offering video gambling five years from now. But he is sure it will be more than 25. […]
See a video of the BolaWrap training at the Woodstock Police Department. The Woodstock Police Department will soon adopt a new device designed to safely and painlessly immobilize non-compliant, non-responsive […]
It was only a conceptual plan. For a possible development. And it was merely a preliminary review. “We’re not approving a final plan,” Mayor Mike Turner said during last week’s […]
D-200 board to consider back-to-school protocols ”Progress of the … plan to return to school on Aug. 16” was scheduled for discussion Tuesday night by the Woodstock School District 200 […]
Woodstock could have a site plan in 30 to 60 days for an eastside development that would include a hotel, two drive-thru restaurants, and 150 apartments in two buildings. REV […]
Three months after the more than $200,000 restoration of the Metra station in Woodstock was dedicated during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the city’s Historic Preservation Commission voted 5-0 to deny the […]
While a “severe” drought in the Woodstock area has been hard on farms, lawns, and gardens, it has had an upside – no mosquitoes. “We have not received any complaints […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
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