Four lanes of Route 47 through Woodstock. Three roundabout intersections. 10-foot-wide path along the east side of the highway. And two construction seasons of major inconvenience. 2024 should be the […]
Woodstock could become the latest McHenry County community to take action designed to prevent buses from dumping migrants in town after that very thing happened Saturday. The City Council will […]
Woodstock could become the latest McHenry County community to take action designed to prevent buses from dumping migrants in town. The City Council will meet in a special session at 5 p.m. […]
Bob Kristensen was working in the office of the Washington Street service station he has owned for 50 years when he heard and felt the blast. “I thought a car […]
Who can figure out the viral whims of social media? Whatever you might have thought was the top local story of 2024, our Facebook readers beg to differ. For pure […]
Many residents might not care whether Woodstock requires businesses to register with the city, but City Council members say such a system would benefit the public. Councilman Tom Nierman, who […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Storefront windows were shattered and the building façade was damaged but no one was injured when a vehicle crashed Christmas Eve morning into the front of Berkshire […]
At the end of a four-hour public hearing that involved several warnings about “inappropriate” conduct by people in the nearly full City Council chambers, only two of six Plan Commission […]
No matter what it looks like on social media or in the newspaper, the colors in the new logo of Woodstock School District 200 are navy and gold. Superintendent Mike […]
About 1,300 buildings in Woodstock need to have lead water-service lines replaced under a federal mandate at a cost of more than $10 million. And your water rates are going […]
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