What's happening in Woodstock this week?
Tuesday, Jan. 20. 7:00PM Woodstock City Council. You may want to be there to hear about a possible ownership change for Shop & Save/ Miska's Liquors on McConnell Road at Route 47. The owner of Armanetti's plans to buy it and needs to beg the City Council and the Liquor Commission for a liquor license so that he can provide "quick in-and-out" liquor purchases to customers.
Woodstock's provincial liquor license laws do not allow a liquor license to be transferred upon the sale of a business. The license of the former owner ends; the new owner has to get a new license. Tuesday night's action will not be to approve the license, but to send the owner to the Liquor Commission.
Watch for the scheduling of the Liquor Commission meeting. It may be a Regular Meeting (first Monday of the month, unless not scheduled or canceled) or it may be a Special Meeting. If it's a Special Meeting, only 48 hours' notice is required, which really means that the public is quite likely not to know about it.
Also, Tuesday, 7:00PM. A big bash at Stage Left Cafe following Barack Obama's inauguration.
Thursday, January 22, 7:00PM. The Woodstock Plan Commission will conduct a Public Hearing (vs. a public meeting) on a request for property on the southwest corner of West Calhoun and South Tryon Streets. Plans for a 56-unit assisted living project will be discussed.
Notice the Notice (photo above right), which is required prior to a Public Hearing. This Notice is posted prominently on the property. Methinks that the Plan Commission knows how to conduct a Public Hearing. We'll see on Thursday evening. The sign reads "Special Use Permit", but what will happen is these two buildings and the garages will have to be demolished and a new structure built.
1 comment:
I wonder if the owners of Miska's Liquors could be the same family that owned a store by the same name in Chicago 40 to 50 years ago. I used to go with my grandfather to the store and he would buy rye wiskey and then mix it with various fruits and rock sugar and age it for a year or two. He had his own homemake "rock n rye" wiskey when the process was finished. Memories from a long time ago...nice memories. I would always get a little taste when a new vintage was opened.
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