Financing for the local school construction boom more than a decade ago started building a debt bomb that is set to go off after 2020. Woodstock School District 200 officials […]
Mary McClellan’s last election as McHenry County clerk will be something new for voters: a new $2 million voting system. “We’ve updated everything,” McClellan said of the new touch-screen voting […]
A Woodstock man who is a registered sex offender was being held on $10,000 bond today after being arrested Tuesday for reportedly entered Woodstock High School. James Cornelius IV, 22, […]
Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 17 for a Woodstock man who was indicted this month on 16 charges of sex crimes against minors between 1991 and 2000. Richard F. Wachter, […]
Lost amid controversy over construction of large solar farms around Woodstock is the fact that many people have chosen not to wait for a community solar system to reduce their […]
Oct. 1, 2019, is the target date to open a facility in McHenry that will replace Woodstock’s Old Firehouse Assistance Center as host for services to the homeless, Mayor Brian […]
Looking for new and different ways to promote Woodstock, Deputy Mayor Mike Turner made a couple of requests of people appearing before the City Council for approval of their projects […]
Starting today, Bohn Ace Hardware in Woodstock is having its going-out-of-business sale. The store along Route 47 was closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare to clear out all inventory. Two […]
• Read about the off-Broadway debut of Woodstock North High School graduate Julia Slomski, a student at Southeast Missouri State University who performed before the bright lights of New York. […]
You could hear it in the deafening roar of motorcycles around the Park in the Square. You could see it in the dozens of empty pairs of shoes that lined […]
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.
