Six local taxing bodies – and maybe seven – will make a recommendation next week on whether Woodstock should create a new tax increment financing district. The Joint Review Board, […]
A confluence of circumstances created the national opioid crisis in the late 1990s: the medical community’s acceptance of the idea that opioids were rarely addictive, the pharmaceutical companies’ aggressive marketing of […]
“This is such an important day for Turning Point,” Executive Director Jane Farmer said. And with that, she used a gold-bladed shovel to ceremonially break ground for a 1,600-foot building […]
McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally believes that we have no one but ourselves to blame for the opioid crisis. “We did create the disease from the ground up,” he […]
ABOUT THIS SERIES The Independent today begins a four-part examination of how the Woodstock community has been affected by the silent, invisible killer of opioid addiction. Oct. 17: Even in […]
Local ambulances will be outfitted with equipment to prevent injuries – to the ambulance crews. Woodstock Fire/Rescue District has been awarded a $130,000 federal grant to equip each of its […]
One sign of the upward trajectory of the Woodstock housing market since 2013 lies in the 27 percent increase in the median sale price for homes: from $125,000 in January, […]
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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