Column: INDIE INN: A how-to for concertgoers
April 15, 2013
As I’m writing this, the sun is beaming in through my dining room windows. Birds chirping, flowers blooming. March 20 may mark the first day of spring for a lot […]
As I’m writing this, the sun is beaming in through my dining room windows. Birds chirping, flowers blooming. March 20 may mark the first day of spring for a lot […]
Growing up on more than 30 acres of rolling Bull Valley woodland was “never boring,” said Becky Walkington, current landowner of Spring Hollow, one of the first pieces of Illinois […]
Seventh-grader Parker Ritter recently had the privilege of being named the first middle school intern at Challenger Learning Center for Science & Technology, Woodstock. Ritter, a Woodstock resident and student […]
Voters will go to the polls Tuesday, April 9, to vote in the consolidated election. The Woodstock Independent sent questionnaires to candidates in Woodstock-area races. Candidates who responded have their […]
The Woodstock City Council voted 6-1 in favor of appointing Roscoe Stelford Woodstock’s next city manager at its March 5 meeting. Stelford, who lives in Woodstock, has been Woodstock’s finance […]
It’s not in Steve Finzel’s nature to bring attention to himself. That’s why when his name was announced as the 2013 Harold Buschkopf Award recipient, Finzel was quick to heap […]
In the middle of the night one evening in Yugoslavia in 1945, Elizabeth Walter and her family, along with 4,000 other ethnic Germans, were rounded up at gunpoint and driven […]
Since this is INDIE INN’s first column in The Woodstock Independent and Valentine’s Day is upon us, we thought we would approach this article much like one would approach a […]
David Shinabarger, a 2009 Woodstock High School graduate, recently returned from Guatemala, otherwise known as the “Land of Eternal Sunshine,” with a broader world-view and a penchant for travel. “I […]
Following through on a promise to be home for Christmas, Aaron and Nathan Cooper returned to Woodstock the first week of December – a little sooner than expected. The two […]
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.