Coroner’s office achieves national accreditation The McHenry County Coroner’s Office has been accredited by the International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners, an honor that only three Illinois counties and 37 nationwide have achieved. According to a news release, the accreditation followed a review of 288 standards on administrative, forensic, and investigative matters, as well […]
Weekend rain was welcome after heightened fire danger in northern Illinois last week kept local firefighters busy late last week. One brush fire Thursday afternoon led a crew from the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District to discover an elderly man’s partly burned body in Bull Valley. Police believe the death was accidental. McHenry County Coroner Michael Rein […]
Each year, the most somber part of the observance of International Overdose Awareness Day is the reading of the names of attendees’ family and friends who have died as the result of a drug overdose. As about 150 people clustered near the bandstand in the Woodstock Square last Thursday evening, 19 names were read – […]
Incumbent Brian Sager was re-elected to his fourth term as Woodstock mayor, handily beating challengers Michael Rein and Gregg Hanson in the consolidated election April 4. Sager garnered 58.97 percent of the vote in the three-man race, or 1,834 votes, according to an unofficial tally from the McHenry County Clerk’s Office. Rein, currently a McHenry […]
Candidates for Woodstock mayor and City Council disagree on whether the city should raise its sales tax rate. The proposal to add a home-rule sales tax in Woodstock was a key issue at a candidate forum March 23 at the Woodstock Public Library. Three people are running for mayor in the April 4 election: incumbent […]
Allen Stebbins has withdrawn from the race for Woodstock mayor, cutting the field of candidates in that election to three. Stebbins, a graphic designer, said he dropped out of the race because he feared a potential conflict of interest would force him to recuse himself from some City Council votes. “I thought that we have […]
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