Woodstock School District 200 will wait at least another week before resuming in-class instruction. That decision was made Friday based on COVID-19 metrics reported by the McHenry County Department of […]
By JERRY NOWICKICapitol News Illinoisjnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – More than 2,000 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized in Illinois as of Thursday night, a high not seen since June 12. At that […]
Several Woodstock city employees have tested positive for the coronavirus and are absent this week from City Hall as they work from home, City Manager Roscoe Stelford said Thursday. “We […]
City police reported they had to enter a Woodstock home early Thursday to remove a Crystal Lake man from the home of a former girlfriend. Police said Travis Howard, 34, […]
Woodstock High School’s campus on South Street could expand by nearly four acres with the donation of the former Woodstock Hospital building by Northwestern Medicine. Officials at Northwestern Medicine announced Wednesday […]
If a lot of uncertainty hovers over the ongoing remodeling of the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House, at least the design of a new back entrance seems to be settled. […]
Local restaurants are in a “rough situation.” That’s the assessment of Dan Hart, owner of D.C. Cobb’s on Main Street and a former Woodstock city councilman. Food delivery and pickup […]
Woodstock School District 200 will monitor a new school metrics dashboard to determine whether schools will reopen Oct. 19. The public can check it out, too. According to a news […]
Where COVID-19 metrics stand on Oct. 16 will determine whether students in Woodstock School District 200 return to in-school instruction on the 19th. “If for some reason it goes red,” […]
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