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Independent file photo | Mayor Brian Sager listens intently for word from Woodstock Willie during the annual Groundhog Day prognostication in the Park in the Square during the event in 2018. The news was bad.

With Groundhog Day falling on a Sunday in 2020, big crowds are expected again for Woodstock’s annual Groundhog Days Festival. “Weekends are better,” festival Chairman Rick Bellairs said, noting last […]

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Larry Lough

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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Larry Lough

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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