A registered child sex offender has been arrested by the Woodstock Police Department for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. Ronald “T.J.” R. Boss, 29, last known address of Lake Geneva, Wis., has been charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen. The Woodstock […]
A Woodstock transient was charged with choking another man following a dispute that broke out Aug. 22 at a home on Washington Street. Charles E. Akerberg, 29, who has no known address, was arrested at 10:55 a.m. Saturday in the 200 block of Throop Street, according to Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen. Akerberg was charged with aggravated battery […]
Woodstock’s newly hired economic development director said he’ll bring his experience from Branson, Mo., to the city of Woodstock as it looks to attract more businesses and visitors to town. Garrett Anderson, 39, currently holds the same position in Branson, a city of about 10,500 people in southwest Missouri known as an entertainment hub for […]
A Greenwood church minister was arrested Aug. 21 at his Woodstock home and charged with six counts of possession of child pornography. The Rev. Timothy Williams, 50, was arrested at his residence in the 500 block of Brookdale Road, according to a McHenry County Sheriff’s news release. The charges against Williams, all Class 2 felonies, stem from […]
Illinois’ ongoing budget stalemate has left state agencies in the lurch, prompted delayed payments to vendors and even shut down museum exhibits. Municipalities are feeling the impact, too, in part due to missing gambling tax revenues. The city of Woodstock, where 19 bars and restaurants host 86 legal video gambling machines, has not received its […]
Bull Valley Police Chief Jim Page said his officers began issuing tickets to contractors driving unidentified vehicles in the village in June 2014, following a rash of burglaries along Country Club Road in Woodstock. Bull Valley has ticketed the contractors using a little-known Illinois law enacted in 1996 that requires business names to be posted […]
A recent court settlement over bond payments means the city of Woodstock will begin maintenance of roads and wetlands at a partially developed subdivision on the south side of the city. Unfinished roads in Apple Creek Estates will be surfaced beginning this fall, and a wetland will be restored, with invasive species removed and new […]
A two-car crash in unincorporated Woodstock over the weekend left two men in critical condition, according to the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. The collision happened at 2:36 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, in the 17200 block of Kishwaukee Valley Road. The preliminary investigation indicated Elijah Drake, 18, of Belvidere, was driving a 2006 Volkswagen Passat eastbound […]
A Woodstock councilman was found not guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol, but he was convicted of leaving the scene of a traffic crash and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident following a trial at the McHenry County Courthouse Aug. 18. Dan Hart, 35, a restaurant and bar owner who was […]
Who knew there was a $4.9 million mansion nestled in rural Woodstock? Glaciers End Estate has apparently sat quietly, in its full beauty, at 19802 Dunham Road, between Woodstock and Harvard’s city limits, without attracting much notice. Located on 20 wooded acres, the 20,000-square-foot “McMansion,” as one luxury real estate website referred to it, […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
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