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 […]
Grants offered from Arts & Culture Fund; application deadline Dec. 31 Charitable organizations that offer arts and culture programming and events in Woodstock are eligible for grants of up to […]
Author Sally Cissna recently completed the third book in her series about life in Woodstock since 1900. Each book covers a period of years in the lives of the Wienke […]
Jacqueline Saper remembers the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 as “an absolutely chaotic time.” Just 17 years old when the uprising against the U.S.-backed Mohammad Reza Shah commenced in 1978, Saper […]
Land Conservancy to host ‘Art of the Land’ art show The 13th annual Art of the Land art show and fundraiser of The Land Conservancy of McHenry County will be […]
The Woodstock community is invited to a famous tea party when Woodstock North High School theater students present “Alice in Wonderland.” The production is based on the classic story by […]
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