Woodstock looks to make Volunteers Day a fixture
The action will help “provide greater emphasis for what our town has been and continues to do and thereby add more significance to our collective efforts.”
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Library building committee chair presents resolution for new building
“I think we’ve been getting input ad infinitum and I really feel we have enough information,” said the library board president. “We’re the ones in charge of looking out for the welfare of the library and I think the time has come to make a decision.”
Woodstock will bond for reed beds at wastewater plant
The Woodstock Town Board unanimously approved bonding for installation of reed beds that will make the wastewater treatment plant more environmentally friendly and save the town up to $50,000 per year.
New ideas for Woodstock Library
Woodstock Library trustees have now discussed building anew and moving next to the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center as part of an expansion, an idea most board members agree has its share of problems but is worth exploring.
Airbnb: Dying to be taxed?
Woodstock lawmakers will consider tougher regulations to handle the rise in popularity of short-term rentals while recognizing homeowners’ right to make extra income.
Woodstock councilman and vet appears in political ad criticizing Donald Trump
“I served under General Patton. I saw him up close, and the thing he’d be most shocked by is you,” said the councilman, pointing at the camera during an ad that ran during one of Trump’s favorite television shows.
Woodstock Outreach Program offers help to addicts
Nearly a year after it was announced, Woodstock’s program to help people overcome substance abuse has helped pave the road to recovery in place of a life of arrests and incarceration.
Trustees wonder if a newly constructed Woodstock Library could cost less
Woodstock Library trustees voted to further explore options for a new building while board President Dorothea Marcus remained adamant the move does not mean it is altogether abandoning a renovation.
Woodstock law requiring all firearms to be locked away and secured draws standing-room-only crowd
“All firearms in the town of Woodstock, whether handguns or long rifles and shotguns and all air guns will be secured, unloaded in locked cabinets and/or protected with trigger locks whenever the firearm or air gun is out of the owner’s or custodian’s immediate possession or control,” the resolution states. Violating the law would be punishable by a $500 fine, 120 days in jail or both.
Woodstock achieves carbon-neutral status
Thanks to geothermal heating at the highway garage, heat pumps in other facilities and some solar panels, the town has been able to reduce its carbon footprint substantially.