By Susan W. Murray NEWS@THEWOODSTOCKINDEPENDENT.COM All places where people gather around food and drink open with great hopes for a long run. After 13 months in business, two such gathering places in Woodstock have decided to call it quits.MobCraft Beer, the taproom in the Sheriff’s House, will close on Nov. 30. According to what owner […]
Just doing business occupied a good part of the Woodstock City Council meeting last week. Among the business-related items the council acted on at its June 20 regular meeting were: • Approving liquor and video gambling permits for Antigua Mexican Grill No. 3, which is tentatively scheduled to open July 1 at 125 E. Calhoun […]
City Council members are pushing back on the escalating costs of remodeling the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House. But despite their questions and concerns at last week’s council meeting, members voted unanimously for the consent agenda that included an additional $262,000 in the contractor’s change orders for the project. That brings the added costs over […]
ShadowView announces brewery will shut down ‘in the coming months’ With Woodstock just months away from a new brewpub opening in the Sheriff’s House portion of the Old Courthouse Center, the city is just weeks away from losing one of three existing microbreweries. ShadowView owners John and Mark Koziol announced on Facebook that four years […]
Recent change orders for renovation of the Old Courthouse and Sheriff’s House have added nearly $700,000 and two months to the project. The City Council last week authorized Bulley & Andrews to do the additional work, for which the construction manager will pay about $82,700 from its contingency fund. The city’s general fund will lend […]
Woodstock’s fourth microbrewery has signed a lease for space in the historic Sheriff’s House starting next spring – or whenever construction manager Bulley & Andrews completes renovations to Old Courthouse Center. The City Council this week approved the five-year lease for MobCraft Beer to occupy about 3,000 square feet inside the 1887 Sheriff’s House and […]
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Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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