Time to update Woodstock city website

Is it time to update the City's homepage? Take a look at the City's website at www.woodstockil.gov/

I was going to write that nothing changes; then I realized that, when I wake up every morning, it's just the same. Is that different from "nothing changes"?

For example, look in the lower right corner at the logos and fine print for the Dozen Distinctive Destinations and Illinois Main Street.

Yes, Woodstock was one of the Dozen Distinctive Destinations designated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation - in 2007. And not since. Is it time to stop trading on a four-year-old designation?

And the Illinois Main Street selection as an Associate Community? Time to remove that one, too, since, in spite of efforts of a few dedicated folks here in town, no serious action or money showed up to move Woodstock into the Main Street category. So it's time to dump that, too.

And look at the Community Calendar. Click back a couple of months, where you would expect to see a historical record of community meetings, especially City Council meetings and Board meetings. Find it? Nope. That's because the City has programmed the calendar to remove meetings after their scheduled times.

I suspect there is a little box in the computer instructions, where an X could be placed. It probably looks something like this: "[ ] Delete event after it occurs."

If the box is left empty, the event remains on the calendar. But, if it looks like this: [X] Delete event after it occurs, then POOF! It vanishes after the meeting is held.

Should Woodstock follow the pattern of McHenry County and leave the meetings in the calendar after they occur?