McHenry County has experienced its first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, known as the U.K. variant, in the county Department of Health announced today. According to a news release, […]
StaffReport news@the woodstockindependent.com Twenty-seven Woodstock bars and restaurants will share in $500,000 the city has awarded this week through its Restaurant Relief Grant Program. Seven drinking, dining, and entertainment establishments […]
Several Woodstock city employees have tested positive for the coronavirus and are absent this week from City Hall as they work from home, City Manager Roscoe Stelford said Thursday. “We […]
Local restaurants are in a “rough situation.” That’s the assessment of Dan Hart, owner of D.C. Cobb’s on Main Street and a former Woodstock city councilman. Food delivery and pickup […]
Where COVID-19 metrics stand on Oct. 16 will determine whether students in Woodstock School District 200 return to in-school instruction on the 19th. “If for some reason it goes red,” […]
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