For the first time ever, calls to the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District last year exceeded 5,000. That means call volume has more than doubled – 107 percent – since 2000, Capt. […]
Voters had to choose from among 10 candidates in 2017 for four seats on the Board of Education for Woodstock School District 200. The choices will be easier in 2019. […]
After working four months without a contract, firefighters have ratified a new 3-year contract with the financially strapped Woodstock Fire/Rescue District. The district’s board approved the contract just hours later […]
On their way last Sept. 9 to a training session with the McHenry County Sheriff’s SWAT team, two tactical EMS personnel heard a call that diverted them just before 7:30 […]
Woodstock’s traditional fireworks display – reliably set on the Fourth of July – will come on a Wednesday this year. Fireworks provider this year is the Mad Bomber Fireworks Productions, […]
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 […]
New ordinances will give Woodstock police new tools to address “inappropriate behavior” by the homeless this summer, Mayor Brian Sager promises. “I don’t want to say ‘aggressive,’” the mayor said […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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