Route 47 project inches toward summer construction start
Bids are expected to be received in June for the widening and improvements of Route 47 through Woodstock. Mayor Mike Turner told City Council members last week the highway improvements […]
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Bids are expected to be received in June for the widening and improvements of Route 47 through Woodstock. Mayor Mike Turner told City Council members last week the highway improvements […]
Four lanes of Route 47 through Woodstock. Three roundabout intersections. 10-foot-wide path along the east side of the highway. And two construction seasons of major inconvenience. 2024 should be the […]
Mayor Mike Turner is in Springfield this week to lobby the Legislature for infrastructure funds that he says would drive economic development in and around Woodstock. Turner and City Manager […]
Woodstock must have the most skillful drivers in the world. How else do you explain the way local motorists have embraced the city’s first traffic roundabout? Many skeptics had warned […]
By Eileen Millard We have never had a roundabout inside Woodstock city limits; now we have one. This large, very visible sign of change got me to thinking about change […]
What does the new year promise for Woodstock? Lots, it seems. Based on what happened – and didn’t happen – in 2022, several things could come our way in 2023. […]
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 […]
Let’s test your vision. How far into Woodstock’s future can you see? What is your vision of this city in, say, 10 years? In less than half of that time, […]
Revisions to plans for enhanced landscaping and lighting along a widened Route 47 through Woodstock have cut about $2.7 million in city expenses from the project as the city prepares […]
Woodstock has reconsidered its Cadillac plan for landscaping and lighting of an improved Route 47 through the city, but that doesn’t mean the $58 million state highway project won’t have […]
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