
Challenger cleared for July liftoff
With the Board of Education’s earlier unanimous vote to have Woodstock School District 200 acquire the Challenger Learning Center, approval of the formal agreement among D-200, Aurora University, and the […]

With the Board of Education’s earlier unanimous vote to have Woodstock School District 200 acquire the Challenger Learning Center, approval of the formal agreement among D-200, Aurora University, and the […]



If you listen carefully, you might hear the buzz coming our way. City officials have been warned by Clarke Mosquito Control that floodwater mosquitos should arrive soon amid the wet, […]



Work to widen Route 47 through Woodstock could see shovels in the ground by late 2021. The project got a boost in the waning days of the 2019 Illinois Legislature […]


“When I look back, I really have had a wonderful life,” said Woodstock resident Bill Lyford, an Army veteran of World War II. As he approached both his 95th birthday […]

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