Repping the brand: TWI at IPA
June 4, 2024
Newspaper writing and producing is a little like cowboying. What? Stick with me for a minute on this… Each has been a longtime, traditional way of making a living and […]
Newspaper writing and producing is a little like cowboying. What? Stick with me for a minute on this… Each has been a longtime, traditional way of making a living and […]
he Woodstock Independent is a weekly newspaper, which means that sometimes, our print deadlines don’t coincide with news. Such is the case with this week’s edition. An early print deadline […]
“Happiness is two kinds of ice cream. Knowing a secret. Climbing a tree. Happiness is five different crayons. Catching a firefly. Setting him free. Happiness is being alone every now […]
It’s time to finally put away your snow shovels (unless you want to keep them handy to scoop up cicadas) and enjoy the Midwest’s version of summer – that brief season of T-shirt temps that occurs between post-winter and pre-winter. Woodstock has a bumper crop of summertime activities every year (check out the SumFun calendar […]
With summer close at hand, our calendars are filling up quickly. Don’t forget to save the evening of Saturday, July 20, for Gavers Barndance. Sponsored by The Gavers Community Cancer […]
When the Woodstock Moose Lodge had its regular charity burger night in late February, funds raised were given to Hearthstone Communities. Those dollars, more than $1,800, couldn’t do much to help the financially troubled retirement and elder care community, Woodstock’s largest, for which expenses exceeded income by $2.5 million in 2022 after back-to-back million-dollar losses […]
Let me tell you something that is 100 percent accurate: The Woodstock Independent makes mistakes. Each Tuesday morning when the printer delivers the papers to our office, the editor knows that somewhere within the thousands of words on dozens of pages he will find an error he and the staff did not catch. It doesn’t […]
Pick more suitable site for new housing subdivision Lucas Road, an east-west dividing line between Crystal Lake and Woodstock, has been targeted by both the city of Woodstock and a high-density housing developer to build 244 single-family homes and 76 duplexes for a total of 320 total units on 135 acres. The planned density is […]
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.