Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Two small children took turns posing inside the kid-sized wood locomotive in front of M.D. Trains on Cass Street as their mother took their picture. That kind of thing has happened a lot the past couple of weeks since the city placed several oversized Christmas decorations in and around various buildings on […]
While Phase 4 of the Restore Illinois plan felt, to many, to be filled with the hope and promise of a return to near normalcy, there lingers still an abundance of caution that affects foot traffic on the Woodstock Square. On a late Thursday morning, Thom Teresi, owner of Double Yolk Café, 117 Van Buren […]
Fortified with hot coffee and handwarmers, about 200 people rallied inbelow-freezing wind chills under an overcast sky Saturday on the snow-covered Woodstock Square as part of the third annual National Women’s March. While the sky wasn’t blue, the political agenda clearly was: civil rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQIA rights, disability rights, workers rights, immigrant rights, universal health care, […]
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