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 Street Music Festival, will not return due to the high cost of hosting the event, D.C. Cobb’s owner and Woodstock City Councilman Dan Hart said. […]

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 westernmost edge of the state, to Woodstock is a long one, but Tschetter said it was worth it to sit in the school’s bleachers and […]

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. Woodstock Fire/Rescue District and Woodstock Police responded to Club Road, about one-quarter mile south of Country Club Road, at about 11:20 a.m. to reports of […]

                      When the musicians who perform in the annual Woodstock Mozart Festival received letters in January informing them the concert tradition was ending, they decided to do something about it.  Just after the holidays, the Mozart festival board of directors announced the three-weekend summer concerts […]

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 imprisoned there in 1895. Organizers have submitted an application for the building to receive an Illinois Historic Marker, a plaque that would detail the Old […]

ShopFresh Market opened quietly last week in the former Wisted’s Supermarket.   The new grocery store opened for business in the approximately 27,000-square-foot location at 330 N. Eastwood Drive without fanfare. A store manager said there was no advance advertising for the opening.   “The doors were unlocked, and the customers came in,” the manager said.   […]

More than one year after gun shots were fired through a residential window on Judd Street, Woodstock Police have made an arrest in the case.   Nicholas A. Lopez, 21, of Woodstock, was charged Friday, May 27, with aggravated discharge of a firearm, a Class 1 felony, Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen stated in a […]

Barry Mishler was only 19 years old when he was drafted by the U.S. Army in September 1969 to serve in the Vietnam War. Mishler, who grew up in Woodstock, hadn’t expected to be called so soon to serve – his draft lottery number was 357. At the time, however, many young men chose to […]

Woodstock Harley-Davidson hosted more than motorcycles last week.  The dealership at 2235 S. Eastwood Drive was the location for the World Armwrestling League’s regional competition May 21. The Southern Regionals were held in Dallas recently, but WAL president Steve Kaplan chose Woodstock for the northern contest. Kaplan — a businessman, motivational speaker and New York Times […]

Representatives from the nonprofit charged with exploring arts uses for the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House visited Woodstock and held forums with the public last week. Employees from Artspace — a Minneapolis-based organization that consults on properties aimed at creative uses and also runs its own buildings for artists — toured the historic buildings, met […]