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Amended calendar ends school year on May 24 May 24 will be the last day of school in Woodstock School District 200 in an amended academic year calendar approved by […]

Amended calendar ends school year on May 24 May 24 will be the last day of school in Woodstock School District 200 in an amended academic year calendar approved by […]

Winners will be declared early in the 2021 city election in Woodstock. That’s because the ballot will have no contests. In 2017, Woodstock had three candidates for mayor and six […]

Several Woodstock city employees have tested positive for the coronavirus and are absent this week from City Hall as they work from home, City Manager Roscoe Stelford said Thursday. “We […]

Woodstock residents of all ages are invited to submit ideas that can help the city establish priorities for community improvements to create an “age friendly, livable community.” According to a […]

Income and spending will jump about 25 percent in the 2020-21 Woodstock city budget – both inflated by the $9 million in major street improvements being made this year.The City […]
Residents of Southview Drive on Woodstock’s south side have a noise problem. “It is thump, thump, thump,” Mary Richards said in describing the sound. “It’s really hard to sleep when […]

After working four months without a contract, firefighters have ratified a new 3-year contract with the financially strapped Woodstock Fire/Rescue District. The district’s board approved the contract just hours later […]

Woodstock’s traditional fireworks display – reliably set on the Fourth of July – will come on a Wednesday this year. Fireworks provider this year is the Mad Bomber Fireworks Productions, […]

More than a dozen Woodstock area projects are part of an $11 billion state plan for road and bridge improvements for fiscal years 2019-2024. Nearly $69.5 million worth of work […]

Help is on the way for Woodstock streets in need of repair – $1.9 million worth of help. That was the 2018 street resurfacing program approved last week by the […]
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