By Andrew Celentanoand Mark Indyke This is the first of two columns by members of the former Woodstock Transportation Commission, which was recently disbanded. This guest column is to bring […]
By Cheryl Wormley More than a month ago, the March 30 Declarations, to be exact, I included a paragraph about our farmer neighbors being eager to start planting. Well, our […]
People who have questions or concerns about the ongoing Old Courthouse project probably should take a look inside and hear the story of the 1857 building – its past and […]
By Cheryl Wormley Finally, finally, we had a lovely spring day or two last week. Thursday was so beautiful – sunny and by mid-afternoon 65 degrees. Daffodils lifted their heads […]
“Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It […]
As Ann Marie Lipinski, former editor of the Chicago Tribune, watched the exodus of experienced journalists when a hedge fund bought the newspaper last year, she mourned. “The scale of […]
By Cheryl Wormley This is Part III of a three-part column series about what it took to start The Woodstock Independent 35 years ago. Last week’s column ended with a […]
Whether Democrat or Republican, we can all agree that Illinois’ nation leading 8,923 units of local government, structured into 45 types of government, is a political tarpit of corruption, cronyism, […]
Woodstock didn’t learn a lot from Smart Growth America’s fiscal health analysis of the city. Amid the flattery over all the things we’ve done right and how well situated we […]
By Cheryl Wormley This is Part II of a three-part column series about what it took to start The Woodstock Independent 35 years ago. Last week’s column ended with the […]
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.
