How would you feel about a water tower being erected on the Square, rising 68 feet above street level atop the building on the northeast corner of Jackson and Benton […]
Third time was the charm for property at 217 W. Judd St. to come before the Historic Preservation Commission, which has voted to recommend a certificate of appropriateness on the […]
Stripping paint and removing a wood awning and siding are planned as part of a project to make a Church Street building look more like the brick structure it was […]
City must be more responsive to historic preservation concerns I am contacting you to say that I support the rationale of the [Historic Preservation] Commission for not certifying the appropriateness […]
Commission-level work is an important if largely ignored (by the public) function of city government in Woodstock. Volunteer members of more than a dozen advisory commissions do the dirty work […]
Three months after the more than $200,000 restoration of the Metra station in Woodstock was dedicated during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the city’s Historic Preservation Commission voted 5-0 to deny the […]
When the future clashed with the past last October at a meeting of Woodstock’s Historic Preservation Commission, the past won. In a rematch last week before the City Council, the […]
Development of an apartment complex north of the Metra depot is back on the fast track. Plans for Central Station, on the former Die Cast factory site, received a certificate […]
Members of the commission voted unanimously to recommend MBI Staffing not be allowed to tear down a “contributing building” of unknown age at 217 W. Judd St. in the city’s […]
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