Older adults can find community, education, and fun at the new SOAR@Dorr Community Center in the Dorr Township building, 1039 Lake Ave. The Community Foundation for McHenry County, the city […]
Staff Report news@the woodstockindependent.com A newly furnished drop-in senior community center has hired a full-time manager who will start next month as the joint venture between Dorr Township and the […]
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This space in the Dorr Township building, 1039 Lake Avenue, will be furnished and equipped with grant funds to become a staffed, drop-in community center for Woodstock residents 60 and older.
Although the main attractions on the consolidated election playbill April 6 will hold no drama, you will find competing characters elsewhere on the 2021 ballot. Woodstock has just one candidate […]
Woodstock might have a race for mayor in 2021. Deputy Mayor Mike Turner filed his candidacy for mayor Monday, along with two candidates for three seats open on the City […]
Dorr Township voters – at least 67 of them – have given the Board of Directors the authority to enter a contract to buy 10 acres next to the highway […]
In a 90-minute town meeting Tuesday night, Dorr Township voters chose to take the next step in a possible land purchase of 10 acres next to the highway garage for […]
Township has $100,000 to buy land, launch new program
Tax rate holds steady sixth straight year; driving workshops offered in March, June
Challenger John Fuller will be Dorr Township’s new highway commissioner after winning one of only a handful of contested township races in the Woodstock area. Fuller just edged incumbent Tom […]
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