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Woodstock has granted $265,000 in small-business loans from the program created by City Council eight weeks ago. Garrett Anderson, the city’s director of Economic Development, said 59 applications had been […]
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Woodstock has granted $265,000 in small-business loans from the program created by City Council eight weeks ago. Garrett Anderson, the city’s director of Economic Development, said 59 applications had been […]




“Between a rock and a hard place” is how Board of Education member Bruce Farris described the bond debt situation of Woodstock School District 200. With $161 million in debt […]


Tennis courts in city parks will open soon, but Woodstock’s swimming pool is closed for the season before it ever opens.Everything else in the city’s recreation program is pretty much […]


Far from being forgotten, the Class of 2020 is on the hearts and minds of even those who don’t have school-aged children. Traditional proms, awards assemblies, athletic banquets and graduations […]

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
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