By Cheryl Wormley Start with the headline and add “but today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.” Those were the first words of the text Denise Graff Ponstein, my friend and fellow-founder of The Independent, sent me Thursday, Aug. 4. I hadn’t heard. I responded, “Thanks, I needed a topic for Declarations.” Denise knows me […]
No one was picking the 7 – 2 Woodstock Blue Streaks to beat the 3 – 7 Prairie Ridge Wolves despite their historically bad season. The pundits all thou…
October 31, 2026


