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 […]
By Morgen Neuhauser news@the woodstockindependent.com For the second year in a row, Woodstock city government is using a survey to ask residents about their satisfaction with the town’s facilities, management, […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com After a second arrest on a weapons-related charge in less than two weeks on Benton Street, city officials have limited outside seating along Woodstock’s dining and entertainment […]
Favorable bids will allow Woodstock to put an additional $1 million into street resurfacing. For some City Council members, it’s still not enough. Councilman Bob Seegers Jr. said poor roads […]
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.
