Staff Report news@the woodstockindependent.com Nearly 100 people gathered Saturday to remember the 1982 mid-air explosion of a military plane that killed all 27 people northeast of Woodstock in Greenwood Township. Surviving family members of the victims made up a sizable portion of the crowd that observed the 40th anniversary at Wonder Lake Fire Station 2. […]
Illinois National Guard troops are not expected to rescue Woodstock School District 200 from its critical shortage of bus drivers. That was the assessment of state Rep. Steve Reick, who told the Board of Education last week that he had been in contact with the Guard and the office of Gov. J.B. Pritzker about the […]
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