Opioid Crisis: Second in a Series, ‘My family had no idea’
October 24, 2018
“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, […]
Financing for the local school construction boom more than a decade ago started building a debt bomb that is set to go off after 2020. Woodstock School District 200 officials […]
Mary McClellan’s last election as McHenry County clerk will be something new for voters: a new $2 million voting system. “We’ve updated everything,” McClellan said of the new touch-screen voting […]
A Woodstock man who is a registered sex offender was being held on $10,000 bond today after being arrested Tuesday for reportedly entered Woodstock High School. James Cornelius IV, 22, […]
Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 17 for a Woodstock man who was indicted this month on 16 charges of sex crimes against minors between 1991 and 2000. Richard F. Wachter, […]
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