Students are greeted as they unload from buses Aug. 15 at Verda Dierzen Early Learning Center on the first day of classes for 2022-23 in Woodstock School District 200, which began the school year without COVID-19 restrictions for the first time since 2019. (Independent photo by Ken Farver)
Students are using their school lockers again. Parents in lower grade levels are walking their apprehensive children into their new classrooms. Fall athletes are back in their locker rooms. And […]
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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.
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