Schools are out for the year, and Woodstock School District 200 is ready.Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Friday that schools in Illinois will not return for in-person learning this academic year […]
Several spring and summer events in Woodstock have been canceled amid the uncertainty of the spread of the coronavirus.In a news release Thursday, Mayor Brian Sager and city administrators announced […]
Twenty-six Woodstock businesses have received a maximum $5,000 check from the city’s small-business loan program, and 74 loans are still available to help local merchants deal with fallout from the […]
Four residents of a Woodstock facility for developmentally disabled adults have died from COVID-19, and more than a dozen residents have been diagnosed with the illness since the first case […]
Plans for a slightly reduced program of street resurfacing in Woodstock were approved Tuesday night by the City Council, which met again by conference call because of precautions involving the […]
Woodstock’s package to ease the financial effects of the coronavirus will not include a delay in the city’s new motor fuel tax of 3 cents a gallon, which goes into […]
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