The Mary-est of sitcoms lives on
January 26, 2022
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.” […]
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 […]
A year after the Groundhog Days Committee scaled back the regularly scheduled events because of COVID-19, plans are underway for nearly a weeklong celebration. Groundhog Days Committee Chairman Rick Bellairs […]
By Lydia LaGue news@thewoodstockindependent.com “The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” A line made famous in the 2003 movie “Elf ” has now […]
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