Coroner: Elect, or appoint?
October 7, 2020
The Woodstock Independent emailed short questionnaires to candidates in contested local races to solicit information that might help voters. Candidates who responded have their replies and photos printed in this […]
Woodstock residents of all ages are invited to submit ideas that can help the city establish priorities for community improvements to create an “age friendly, livable community.” According to a […]
The “Thanks for 24 great years” message on the sign outside the shuttered Colemans Tavern & Grill at 823 Lake Ave. has been a forlorn reminder over the past nine […]
If you boarded a Metra train in Woodstock during the past six months without a ticket to ride, you were in the clear. Union Pacific conductors on the Northwest line […]
Students in Woodstock School District 200 will return to classrooms Oct. 19. Most of them, anyway. Probably, but not for certain. The Board of Education voted Tuesday night for a […]
Not all decisions about remodeling of the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House will be made in Woodstock, it appears. The National Park Service, which oversees rehabilitation of facilities on the […]
Celebration of life services for former two-term Woodstock Mayor Alan D. Cornue are planned for next summer at the Cornue family farm in rural Hebron Cornue, 82, died Tuesday at […]
Turnout was heavier than usual this morning on the first day for early voting in the Nov. 3 presidential election. While first-day voting in the clerk’s office at the Administrative […]
Educators in Woodstock School District 200 plan to let science determine when in-school instruction resumes. And parents should know next week when that will likely happen. The Board of Education […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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