By Larry Loughlarry@the woodstockindependent.comDowntown Woodstock will be well represented when newly elected Gregory Hanson takes his seat at the May 6 meeting.Hanson, 65, along with two sisters, owns The Backdrop, […]
By Larry Loughnews@the woodstockindependent.comTaking care of business was the main business of last week’s meeting of the Woodstock City Council.At the request of the Food Shed Co-op grocery store, which […]
By Larry LoughLARRY@the woodstockindependent.comWoodstock will get a downtown plan with specific “actionable” direction, the City Council was told last week.The council agreed to pay nearly $155,000 to The Lakota Group […]
Trying to navigate flurry of immigration directivesBy Larry Loughlarry@the woodstockindependent.comLocal officials are weighing the implications of increased enforcement of U.S. immigration law in the early days of the second Trump […]
Search back on for space to house Rec Center programs and offices during renovationBy Susan W. MurrayNews@the woodstockindependent.com After doing its due diligence, city staff will recommend to City Council that […]
Final year of city’s enhanced streets improvement programBy Larry LoughLarry@the woodstockindependent.com Woodstock enters 2025, the fifth year of the city’s five-year, $55 million enhanced streets improvement program, with a plan to […]
Development at the former Die Cast factory site in Woodstock includes two phases of construction – and possibly three – under a redevelopment agreement between the city and Chicago Hubs […]
Work on a senior housing development at the former Die Cast factory site in Woodstock would begin by September under a redevelopment agreement approved Tuesday by the City Council.The agreement […]
Voters throughout McHenry County are likely to have a universal voting site in Woodstock starting this year.Final approval is expected this week for the county clerk’s elections office to move […]
Woodstock last week was still digging out of the two snow storms that hit the city the previous week.City parking lots along Jefferson and Throop streets were scheduled to be […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
