Woodstock bails, due to weather forecast

Tonight's Woodstock City Council meeting has been canceled and re-scheduled to Thursday, February 3, at 7:00PM. Tonight's meeting was to include consideration of an amendment to the ordinance controlling the snow-covered Mountains of Woodstock (Merryman Aggregates' strip-mining operation along U.S. 14).

Also, tomorrow morning's Groundhog Day prognostication has been canceled. And the breakfast at Pirro's will be Saturday morning.

Also, don't bother to put your trash out tonight. No garbage pick-up on Wednesday in Woodstock.

Think the blizzard will be as harsh as forecasted?

Regarding Thursday night's agenda for the City Council meeting - the agenda includes an Executive Session on a collective bargaining matter. Absent from the agenda is an item for Action on Matter discussed in Executive Session. Some public bodies are including this item, in view of feelings at the Illlinois Attorney General's office that a public body cannot take action without disclosing intention to do so in advance on the agenda. Perhaps the Woodstock City Council intends only to discuss the collective bargaining negotiations and does not plan any vote.