Bull Valley’s own Operation Wild Horse has a starring role in the documentary “The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses,” which releases this Friday nationwide and at Woodstock’s Classic Cinemas. The movie, […]
Two vastly different scenes were being filmed Friday morning on the Square, but both production companies managed to wrap up work before the Marian Central High School homecoming parade came […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic seeped into the United States, the Chicago Tribune’s chief theater critic, Chris Jones, wrangled permission from his bosses to travel to New York to see the […]
Riding on the coattails of a successful fair, the McHenry County Fair Association is planning for a strong autumnal turnout this season. With Fall Diddley, again this year, not being […]
Woodstock’s 22-month-old Arts Commission has canceled more meetings than it’s conducted. In fact, its members have never met face-to-face as a commission. That should change with the appointment of a […]
The Hat is Back on the Square. After the annual Witches and Wizards festival went virtual in 2020, the event will return for a fifth year next month to the […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Performers from the world-renowned Joffrey Ballet will be featured as part of a black-tie gala Nov. 6 at Woodstock Opera House to launch The Arts & Culture […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Dungeons & Dragons will be a new interactive experience amid “Fantasy & Fiction,” a national fine art exhibition through Sept. 24 at the Old Courthouse Art Gallery […]
Winning the nationwide T-Mobile ‘Hometown Techover’ contest? $3 million Media exposure for Woodstock’s winning? Priceless Woodstock will be featured on NBC’s Today Show on Friday morning, the day after T-Mobile […]
If there were any doubt that the steelpan – a native Trinidad and Tobago instrument – had a home in Woodstock, Matthew Potts, wife Christina Potts, and Anthony Jay Houston […]
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What do legendary NFL quarterbacks Steve Young, Dan Marino and Warren Moon have in common? They have all…
Within the next month, Barrington resident Doug McConnell will attempt to accomplish something that only 47 people older…
Woodstock resident Bob Will is like many of us. He worked hard all his life, raised a beautiful…
