A typically low-key summer meeting of the Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education received a jolt last week when two teachers questioned why co-curricular items that had been in […]
By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois Jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker surpassed 100 bills signed as he put his signature on more than 30 new laws last week. They […]
When the Woodstock Plan Commission was considering a new ordinance to regulate electronic signs, Building and Zoning Director Joe Napolitano admitted that most – if not all – such signs […]
Woodstock officials continue to work with Chicago developer Kenneth Rawson on his plan for Founder’s Crossing, a proposed housing development north of the Metra station. Rawson’s plan for 92 small-lot, […]
For recently promoted Woodstock Police Department Sgt. Jeremy Mortimer, family is everything. “It is so important to me to have my family by my side,” Mortimer said outside City Hall […]
Eminent domain is a process for government to take private land it needs from someone who doesn’t like the price that was offered to sell it. But it isn’t always […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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