Woodstock continues to sneak up on issues of diversity and racial intolerance in the community. Last July, Mayor Brian Sager organized three Race and Diversity forums at Stage Left Café […]
Series of forums ends, but discussion doesn’t
Local forum describes intolerance most residents don’t see
Mayor Brian Sager was named winner of the annual Harold Buschkopf Award during a dinner Saturday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Woodstock Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry. […]
When he ran for a fourth term as mayor of Woodstock, Brian Sager announced it would be his last. Now he has announced what’s next. Sager told The Independenthe would campaign […]
City officials are happy with the Promote Woodstock marketing effort as its local government-funded budget approaches a quarter of a million dollars a year. But it faces two big challenges: […]
Woodstock has a target date for opening a countywide facility for the homeless west of the city – October 2019. For everybody concerned, it can’t come soon enough. Mayor Brian […]
They received no promises, but Woodstock officials came away from meetings in Springfield last week encouraged that state funding for improvements to Route 47 south of the city would be […]
The city of Woodstock was expected to enact weight restrictions on Irving Avenue after holding a public hearing on the proposal. The city-led Pavement Management Task Force, which examines the […]
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