More work on the Woodstock Opera House’s lighting project will move forward after the Woodstock City Council approved a contract with a Milwaukee-based company to purchase 30 new stage-lighting instruments. […]
Drawing on his life experiences as a rural Midwesterner, author Michael Perry will bring the stories from his best-selling memoirs to life through a humorous storytelling monologue at 8 p.m. […]
Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe it was truthful. Whatever it was, it was brave. Facing a crowd of hundreds of shivering onlookers, Woodstock Willie predicted six more weeks of winter […]
A reluctant Woodstock Willie emerged on the Woodstock Square this morning and predicted the obvious: there will be six more weeks of winter. Hundreds gathered at the annual event to […]
By definition, a switchback is a zigzag path or road, and that’s certainly the route that musician Martin McCormack has traveled on his way back to the Woodstock Opera House […]
Dubbed by the music industry as “The Patriot” for his hit song “God Bless the USA,” Lee Greenwood said, “I didn’t intend that to start out, but I embrace it.” […]
With his pierced ears, jeans and boots, Dave Schmidt doesn’t look like your average corporate suit. And he isn’t — anymore. But in “another life,” as Schmidt put it, he […]
A show that has become a holiday tradition in Woodstock – Ed Hall’s Woodstock Christmas Guitar Night – will be presented again this year at 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23, […]
For the past 16 years, Terry Leonard has contributed to the holiday charm of downtown Woodstock, providing horse-drawn carriage rides. Once again, the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce & Industry contracted […]
Thousands of people crowded onto the Woodstock Square Nov. 28 for the annual Lighting of the Square to mark the official beginning of the holiday season in Woodstock. Choirs sang […]
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.
