Woodstock recalls summer ’69
July 10, 2019
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 […]
Dorr Township voters – at least 67 of them – have given the Board of Directors the authority to enter a contract to buy 10 acres next to the highway […]
No one will be surprised, but Democrat Lauren Underwood is running for re-election to Congress in Illinois’ 14th District. The only surprise might be that she chose to make the […]
Newspaper ads and yard signs have promoted attendance at meetings of the Woodstock Plan Commission, which has for months been considering the proposed Founder’s Crossing housing development north of the […]
By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com The first wave of tax increases that will pay for Illinois’ $45 billion capital infrastructure plan will take effect Monday, July 1, pending […]
In a 90-minute town meeting Tuesday night, Dorr Township voters chose to take the next step in a possible land purchase of 10 acres next to the highway garage for […]
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 […]
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