Loving and maintaining community
March 13, 2023
By Cheryl Wormley Thirty-six years ago tomorrow Denise Graff Ponstein and I sat at desks in an office on the second floor of the building on the southeast corner of […]
By Cheryl Wormley Thirty-six years ago tomorrow Denise Graff Ponstein and I sat at desks in an office on the second floor of the building on the southeast corner of […]
Voters in the April 4 consolidated election will decide whether the village of Bull Valley becomes a Home Rule community. What is Home Rule? Illinois Home Rule is the constitutional […]
Downtown restaurants don’t need another tax I read in The Independent that Woodstock is going to charge restaurants for their use of public sidewalks and parking spaces for outdoor dining. […]
Let’s say that, at the least, the optics are bad. That is, it just doesn’t look good to be spending more than $100,000 a month on unforeseen expenses associated with […]
By Cheryl Wormley This week, my husband, Jim, and I have been talking about the importance of people voting in local elections. He even suggested I write Declarations on the […]
I had written a letter to the editor regarding my disappointment in the McHenry County Board’s decision to oppose the state law passed on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. As […]
Don’t look now, but it’s March. Spring officially arrives in less than three weeks, on the 20th. And you know what season comes next? Yep, street construction season. For those […]
By Cheryl Wormley Those of us who stayed up past 10:30 p.m. between 1962 and 1992 probably watched the “Tonight Show” starring Johnny Carson regularly or at least frequently. Laughing […]
Early in my career as a minister, I served a small church south of the Mason Dixon line. The board of trustees was mainly comprised of transplants from the north […]
“Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability […]
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.