About 1,300 buildings in Woodstock need to have lead water-service lines replaced under a federal mandate at a cost of more than $10 million. And your water rates are going to go up – once now, and again later – as the city works to comply with state and federal deadlines to fix the health-related […]
City Council decided in November the city budget will require a 4.15 percent property tax increase for Woodstock residents next year. Discussions at the past two meetings, however, indicate that the city will continue to rely on local taxes to address what City Manager Roscoe Stelford referred to as “financial challenges” in the immediate future. […]
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