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During a Community Creative Workshop in City Hall last April, about 30 local citizens offered suggestions about “branding” Woodstock to promote it as a good place to live and do […]
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During a Community Creative Workshop in City Hall last April, about 30 local citizens offered suggestions about “branding” Woodstock to promote it as a good place to live and do […]
Revisionist history of American slavery tells a “joke” that the benefits for those kidnapped Africans were that they received free passage to the United States and jobs when they arrived.No […]
Businesses along Route 47 in Woodstock will be encouraged see the pending rebuilding of the state highway “as an opportunity to grow and reinvest in façades, signage, parking areas, sidewalk […]
We expect 2024 to be an important year in giving Woodstock definition, direction, and momentum.But it won’t be without some pain.We refer particularly to the state’s extensive work to improve […]
By Clement Clarke Moore’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In hopes […]
As a family-friendly community, we wouldn’t want a visitor to be ticketed for asking someone on the street for the time if standing within three feet of the Woodstock resident.Or […]
In some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic is still with us.It’s reflected in the reading and math scores of students in the annual statewide school report card, which was released recently […]
In the fall of 2018, Sol America was trying to convince a skeptical Bull Village Board to approve a solar farm in a corn field across from a housing addition […]
If you were to calculate the number of volunteer hours that Woodstock residents contribute in a year, the number would be staggering.Part of that is a result of the near […]
Accessibility.Newspaper writers who work in a world of one- and two-syllable words try to avoid those with six syllables.But “accessibility” seems just right to explain what McHenry County College means […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.