Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The 8th annual 97.1 The River Wing & Rock Fest is set for May 31-June 2 in downtown Woodstock.
The 8th annual 97.1 The River Wing & Rock Fest is set to return to Woodstock later this year. The festival, organized by USA Entertainment, Inc., will host the festival from 6 p.m. Friday May 31, noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday June 1 and and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday June 2. The council approved a temporary alcohol license for the company to hold the festival at the Park at City Center. The event, which usually has free admission, is slated to have two designated areas where alcohol will be served — on the lower level of the park. The festival will feature food, music, arts & crafts and a kids zone. A wing-eating contest is also typically held during the event. Nearly 20,000 people are expected to flock to Woodstock for the event. The council …
Monday, March 11, 2013
The Woodstock City Council will consider extending City Manager Jeff Moon's contract through 2015 during its meeting tonight.
Extending City Manger Jeff Moon's contract through 2015 will be considered by the Woodstock City Council during its meeting tonight. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Chambers at City Center. The contract will be extended through Dec. 31, 2015, and is revised to reflect Moon's current salary of $137,891.29. Moon said he's declined any pay increases for 2014 and 2015 in exchange for removing the 100-mile restriction on other employment opportunities. Moon was hired by the city of Woodstock in February 2008 after serving as the city manager in Orange Beach, Alabama. The council will also consider a temporary alcohol license for USA Entertainment, Inc., the organizers of the 2013 Wing & Rock Fest. The festival will be held at the Park…
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Billy Peppers' last day will be on Nov. 30.
Woodstock officials want to wait before diving into the search to replace its director of economic services. City Manager Jeff Moon said he plans to move slower on the quest to fill Billy Peppers' shoes. Peppers announced Wednesday that he will stepping down as the city's director of economic services. His last day with the city will be on Nov. 30 and he will start his new position with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Peppers will work in the department's Community Development & Finance Division. "We will take a couple of weeks and look at how we want to approach filling Billy’s position," Moon said. "With his position and community development director open, we will evaluate our current organizational structure and see if we…
Friday, February 3, 2012
Two outside audits showed that the vity of Woodstock's finance department kept poor records.
Woodstock's CFO resigned last week under the threat of being fired. Henry Bucci resigned Jan. 26, three days after the mayor and City Council decided during an executive session to terminate his employment, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The newspaper reports that two outside audits showed the city's finance department had been keeping poor records, such as making at least two late payments to employees' voluntary contribution retirement plans in 2009 and neglecting to note a $600,000 payment on a water and sewer bond. That was an oversight by a subordinate but ultimately was his responsibility, Bucci told the AJC. Bucci was fired from the city of East Point before coming to work for the city of Woodstock, and, one year after …
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The City of Woodstock approved The Outlet Shoppes at Atlanta in mid-December to move forward, but they've hit a bump in the road costing $700,000.
The City of Woodstock has a long road ahead of them before they could be seeing a 365,000-square-foot mall on the north side of Main Street. Right now, they are concentrating on altering that road instead of worrying about a competing outlet mall only 10 miles across town or even the possibility of not having funding to complete existing outlined projects. Both Woodstock and Ridgewalk parkways that run perpendicular to each other are set to be relocated, but the focus at the moment is on $700,000 for Ridgewalk Parkway. The Ridgewalk project is $2.77 million, with $2.7 million coming from the current SPLOST for road infrastructure projects, said Billy Peppers, director of Economic Development. Even if the outlet mall isn’t built, the road …
Jackie Tanase
3:14 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
Billy Peppers will be greatly missed. He has always made himself available to us when we needed advice. We at FoxTale Book Shoppe wish Billy and his lovely family all the best for future success. Kind regards, Jackie Tanase more ›