A special use permit to allow Woodstock’s first cannabis-dispensing business to operate a 1411 S. Eastwood Drive, the site of the former Golf & Games, won a recommendation last week from the city Plan Commission. Six Labs Inc. already has a cannabis-infusing business there to produce edible products – cookies and candies – at that […]
Given the chance to make it easier to put a cannabis dispensary in Woodstock, the City Council decided not to do it. Despite a unanimous vote earlier of the Plan Commission to allow a dispensary to open with a city permit rather than a special use exception to the zoning ordinance – which requires the […]
Twenty-one months after receiving a special use zoning permit to open a cannabis business in Woodstock, Six Labs Inc. last week won City Council approval to amend the permit to allow opening with only a part of the original business plan. The permit SLI received from the council in July 2020 would allow the business […]
When Woodstock police stopped the car of a 20-year-old Woodstock man shortly after midnight on Dec. 19, they were prepared to ticket him for driving without a light for his license plate. It turned out to be much more. In addition to charging him for the burned out bulb, police also filed preliminary charges of […]
Two potential cannabis growing operations have received the go-ahead from the Woodstock City Council. And a proposal for a third is on its way. VISE Partners proposes building a 39,200-square-foot facility on Duncan Place, off McConnell Road, to grow, infuse, and process cannabis products. On the property currently occupied by Golf & Games at 1411 […]
We can assume that use of the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House will make a lot of news again in 2020. It could be the first big story of the new year. And progress reports on rebuilding a wider, better Route 47 through Woodstock will continue to get attention. A couple of years of construction […]
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