About 60 family, friends, peers and faculty were treated last week to a morning performance of “Trolls” by the Creekside Middle School Life Skills and Target classes, along with their […]
This Saturday at 6:30 p.m., Waverly Ballroom will host the “Tea Party For Teens” EP release concert for Woodstock’s newest and youngest band, Seasalt. With Woodstock’s Becky Sargeant on guitar, […]
The final piece of the Woodstock on Film and on the Stage Mural and Sculpture Garden has been scheduled for public dedication next month. The public is invited to help […]
Acclaimed musical theater historian Charles Troy will bring five shows to the Woodstock Opera House starting next week, with proceeds to benefit Woodstock musical and theater groups. Four of Troy’s […]
NEW YORK – Journeys can be measured prosaically, in terms of time, such as the 14-hour drive in a rented Dodge Caravan that Prairiewood Elementary art teacher Chuck Jones and […]
Seventy-five years marks a milestone, so, when traveling piano teacher Don Beyer realized his birthday fell on a Saturday, he decided to have a piano recital to mark the occasion. […]
A Woodstock resident and relentless supporter of veterans, U.S. Army veteran Orville “Butch” Borchardt never has taken the easy way out of anything. Drafted into the military in 1970, he […]
Melissa Hannon, co-founder of Peace and Paws Dog Rescue, will present the final program in the 2017-2018 Creative Living Series at the Woodstock Opera House, at 10 a.m. Thursday, April […]
A book can be a vehicle by which a reader is transported to incredible places. But on Wednesday, April 4, Rita Collins – owner of St. Rita’s Amazing Traveling Bookstore […]
Beautiful verse soon will be a familiar refrain around the city of Woodstock. Local businesses, inspired by the passionate Atrocious Poets, will show their support for National Poetry Month all […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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