Each Christmas, we choose the trips we will take down memory lane – the old movies that we’ll watch, the traditional family recipes that we’ll try to duplicate, and the […]
Lt. Col. Dave Brady, an Army chaplain, returned home from deployment in Kuwait and Qatar in early November, just in time to participate in Woodstock Veterans Day activities, Thanksgiving, and […]
Last month, Michael Stanard emailed his clients to let them know that One Zero Charlie would soon close its doors. After 43 years of providing a full gamut of marketing […]
Brooke Amann, a Woodstock North graduate, is one of those athletes who is taking advantage, the best she can, of the coronavirus. The former Thunder volleyball player is listed as […]
Outings to find the perfect tree for the living room is a holiday tradition not to be missed. Wandering through rows, thick with pine, examining each tree to find the […]
In this last week of fall, almost all of the trees have shed their colorful bouquet of leaves. Native oaks are an exception, holding on to their dry, tan leaves […]
Woodstock High School’s All-Conference volleyball player of the year, Maddie Moan, has committed to play at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A four-year varsity player, Moan had 60 aces, 327 kills, […]
The congregation of Grace Lutheran Church in Woodstock recently recognized Marge Birk for her 50 years of service and leadership of the Grace Sewing Circle. “It is a joy to […]
Woodstock’s usual events for Veterans Day cautiously re-emerged this year, one year after COVID had canceled most of 2020’s events. District 200 embraced veterans last Wednesday by inviting them to […]
Jacqueline Saper remembers the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 as “an absolutely chaotic time.” Just 17 years old when the uprising against the U.S.-backed Mohammad Reza Shah commenced in 1978, Saper […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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