Wonder of wonders
April 13, 2025
When I retired 16 months ago, my husband, Jim, gently suggested I consider gathering my columns about family into a book. I didn’t take to the idea at first, but […]
When I retired 16 months ago, my husband, Jim, gently suggested I consider gathering my columns about family into a book. I didn’t take to the idea at first, but […]
Citizens of Woodstock are understandably divided over the city’s legal hardball to take private property for public parking a block off the Square. The city undeniably needs more parking in […]
Metra officials were in Woodstock this March just as they were in March 2024, with their maps and charts, explaining plans for a new layover yard and maintenance facility off […]
April, National Poetry Month, is here again, a time to celebrate verse and its importance in our culture. Introduced in 1996, the occasion is observed each year by the Academy […]
You should have everything you need to cast an informed vote in next week’s election of a voting majority of the seven-member Woodstock City Council. Mayor Mike Turner, who is […]
It happened a couple of weeks ago at a four-way stop in town. The other driver and I arrived at the intersection within a few seconds of each other. Being […]
See whether you can guess what is significant about this sentence: “After a lunch of broccoli and zucchini, I started to vacuum before calling the cemetery committee about my absence […]
I was on U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen’s Washington, D.C., staff in 1969. The honorable senator from Illinois, a Republican, was the minority leader of the Senate. As the receptionist, I […]
When I think about people – friends, casual acquaintances, or even random strangers I spent just a few minutes with – I think about how they treated me, how they […]
“Thank you for being you.” – Diane Baker-Lockwood My wife said this to me recently. It’s a simple statement, but it meant the world to me. Allow me to provide […]
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.