Environmental Defenders names new exec director The Environmental Defenders of McHenry County have named Carolyn Bendel as the Woodstock-based agency’s new executive director. Bendel most recently was an art consultant/project […]
Grace Lutheran Church Sewing Circle’s members helped many people in 2022, both locally at 10 area nursing homes and globally through Lutheran World Relief. A large chain of people is […]
One very active outreach ministry at First Presbyterian Church combines talents, ideas, information, and fellowship. In 2010 congregation member Kay Darby and the late Judy Haimbaugh read an article about […]
Lifelong Woodstock resident Angela Boe is putting her artistic flair on this year’s Groundhog Days.Having taught elementary art for 31 years in Crystal Lake School District 47, Boe retired in […]
Woodstock and Woodstock North high school will be well represented at the conference sponsored by the Illinois Music Education Association from this week in Peoria. According to WHS Choir Director […]
The Afro-Brazilian art form that is capoeira has been slowly drawing learners of the practice to Woodstock, making the Woodstock Square the only place outside of Chicago to offer the […]
Boy Scout Troop 153 members who are pursuing the Eagle Scout rank faced many challenges during the pandemic years. Some had completed nearly all of their requirements when COVID began, […]
U.S. Rep. Bill Foster was in his Washington, D.C., office last Friday morning preparing to make the five-minute walk to the House chamber, where the Republican majority would be in […]
By Eileen Millard news@thewoodstockindependent.com Whether it is screenplays, novels, nonfiction, video game scripts, or even business writing, author Jay Bonansinga says there is one thing that never changes, one constant: […]
Sheriff appoints new undersheriff, jail chief McHenry County Undersheriff John Bucci and Chief of Corrections Ryan Sciame were sworn in last week after their appointments by first-term Sheriff Robb Tadelman. […]
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