The Woodstock School District 200 Board of Education will reconsider a contract extension and pay raise for Superintendent Mike Moan after a Woodstock resident filed a complaint alleging the board […]
UPDATED 3:30 p.m. Thursday, June 16, 2016 The McHenry County Coroner’s Office has determined several bones found in a residential yard this past weekend are not from human remains. The coroner’s office […]
Dan Aylward arrived at the McHenry County Treasurer’s Office on property tax deadline day June 13 with a suitcase full of cash and, as he put it, a lot of anger. […]
A 30-year-old registered child sex offender from Woodstock was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to two girls riding bicycles on Oak Street late last month. Steven B. Degutis, of the […]
The title of Miss Woodstock 2016 went to Ann Marie Kamps, who impressed judges with a modern dance routine and her responses during the impromptu questions segment. Kamps, 18, a 2016 […]
An annual summer music festival hosted by downtown bars and restaurants has been called off this year, organizers have announced. Benton Street Fest’s Woodstock Musicfest, which succeeded the former Main […]
All told, Deb Tschetter will have traveled about 1,800 miles round-trip to see her grandson graduate from Marian Central Catholic High School. The trip from Belle Fourche, S.D., on the […]
An 80-year-old Woodstock woman was not seriously injured May 26 after she suffered a diabetic incident and drove off the road into a tree in Bull Valley Golf Club subdivision. […]
The Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House could receive recognition from the Illinois State Historical Society for its significance in the life of influential labor leader Eugene V. Debs, who was […]
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