Many taxpayers, especially those not particularly fond of paying more taxes, wonder why the City Council needs to increase property taxes every year through 2025 to pay for resumption of […]
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Woodstock City Council has borrowed that concept in its recent discussions about the structure of city government, to wit: […]
By Cheryl Wormley In full disclosure, I have Grandma Brain. Jim and I have had the joy of hosting grandkids for Grandpa and Grandma Camp for the past three weeks. […]
I want to address what some parents said at a recent District 200 Board of Education meeting about why they don’t want their children to have to wear masks in […]
City must be more responsive to historic preservation concerns I am contacting you to say that I support the rationale of the [Historic Preservation] Commission for not certifying the appropriateness […]
By Cheryl Wormley Weekly new COVID-19 cases in McHenry County were five times higher last week than the last week of June. Five weeks ago our county had just 19 […]
If you’ve heard that COVID-19 has come back, don’t believe it. The fact is, it never went away. But you know what has come back? Masks. We had a couple […]
“Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.” – Scott Hamilton, U.S. Olympic gold medalist in figure skating “The best kids are […]
By Cheryl Wormley Some weeks, I struggle to come up with a topic for Declarations. Not so this week. In fact, I have three things vying for attention. Thanks, Sydney […]
Commission-level work is an important if largely ignored (by the public) function of city government in Woodstock. Volunteer members of more than a dozen advisory commissions do the dirty work […]
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.
