Woodstock’s outdoor emergency warning siren in the 1200 block of Lake Avenue can’t be activated currently, city police said Thursday afternoon in a news release. Activation/operation issues with the siren […]
Students in Woodstock School District 200 will have the option to continue learning from home this fall or to return to the classrooms they haven’t seen since March.In a special […]
While Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois plan felt, to many, to be filled with the hope and promise of a return to near normalcy, there lingers still an abundance […]
The McHenry County Department of Health reported today it had confirmed a case of COVID-19 that was asymptomatic from someone who attended a protest between 1 and 2:30 p.m. June […]
Last week’s opening of a countywide shelter in McHenry for homeless people has left two empty buildings in Woodstock looking for new life. The Shelter of Hope, a 10,500-square-foot, 70-bed […]
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