The Woodstock City Council removed several properties from the city’s Tax Increment Financing District April 18 to avoid a conflict of interest for an incoming councilman. Councilman-elect Jim Prindiville, a […]
Social clubs and fraternal organizations won’t have to pay as much to host video gambling after the city of Woodstock lowered its fees. Class “C” liquor license-holders, made up of […]
Woodstock residents will pay more for water after the City Council approved a new budget that includes a 3 percent hike in water and sewer rates. The Fiscal Year 2017-18 […]
Closing Dean Street Elementary School is among the recommendations that will be presented to the Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education next month. Superintendent Mike Moan presented the final […]
The Woodstock City Council closed a loophole that could have allowed some gas stations to receive video gambling licenses. The city amended its Unified Development Ordinance April 4 to create […]
As Woodstock officials weigh whether to increase the city’s sales tax rate, local entrepreneurs are divided over how a hike would impact their businesses. A proposal to raise the sales […]
A man arrested by Woodstock Police whose drug charges were later tossed received an $80,000 settlement from the city of Woodstock. Philip M. Williams sued the city and two of […]
Challenger John Fuller will be Dorr Township’s new highway commissioner after winning one of only a handful of contested township races in the Woodstock area. Fuller just edged incumbent Tom […]
A Woodstock Police officer arrested in February for allegedly driving drunk while off duty has quit the force. Michael E. Niedzwiecki, who was a WPD patrol officer at the time […]
Every household in Woodstock soon will receive a fabric shopping bag as part of a city-led initiative that eventually could expand to include a charge for plastic bags at Woodstock […]
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