Children’s magic shows at Stage Left as fundraisers Six Saturday morning children magic shows at the Stage Left Café will feature McHenry County magician Kevin Sarnwick, who uses slight of […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com “The Creation of The Music Man,” Charles Troy’s 90-minute multimedia presentation on the making of the classic musical, will be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, […]
Sue Ann Nivens: “I was lying in bed last night and I couldn’t sleep, and I came up with an idea. So I went right home and wrote it down.” […]
By Lydia LaGue news@thewoodstockindependent.com Holly Adkins has been involved in the arts her whole life, and now she wants to bring more of it to Woodstock. Growing up in a […]
When Liesl Olson delivers her presentation on the Chicago Avant-Garde at the Jan. 20 installment of the Creative Living Series, she will tell the stories of five women from the […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com The deadline has been extended and the fee reduced for the 2021-22 art contest sponsored by the McHenry County Historical Society & Museum in Union. Entries for […]
By Lydia LaGue news@thewoodstockindependent.com In their last meeting of a tumultuous 2021, members of the Woodstock Arts Commission are looking forward to the projects they hope to accomplish in the […]
Each Christmas, we choose the trips we will take down memory lane – the old movies that we’ll watch, the traditional family recipes that we’ll try to duplicate, and the […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Two small children took turns posing inside the kid-sized wood locomotive in front of M.D. Trains on Cass Street as their mother took their picture. That kind […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com “Christmas at the Castle” by Susan Roderick Seibel won the People’s Choice Award as chosen by visitors at the sixth annual Gingerbread House Walk in the Old […]
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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…
