Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
News Brief courtesy Alex Vucha, WFRD Public Information Officer On Saturday, July 5, 2025, at 5:53 p.m., the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District was dispat…
For the past 35 years, The Woodstock Independent has been publishing articles about local educators who are retiring. We ran our first one in 1990, wh…
Readers of The Independent have seen some good news and bad news lately about the Die Cast factory site along Clay Street. Fortunately, the bad news i…
