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July 22, 2026
First-ever girls flag football team preps for season with red hot camp By Steve Peterson news@thewoodstockindependent.com Woodstock D-200’s first girls flag football camp took place during a hot week at […]
By Janet Dovidio news@thewoodstockindependent.com As education costs have increased over recent decades, one group at St. Mary Catholic School in Woodstock has supported unmet needs. The St. Mary of Woodstock […]
Woodstock Shakespeare Players returns for third season of free shows on the Square Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Shakespeare is back on the Square this summer! Woodstock Shakespeare Players is back for […]
By Susan W. Murray news@thewoodstockindependent.com “I loved school,” Laura (Martino) Littner said. “I knew I wanted to be a teacher when I was 7 years old.” From 2005 until this […]
Staff Reportnews@thewoodstockindependent.com City officials have decided seven months is long enough to wait for the owner of the Thompson Appliance building on Clay Street to clean up or tear down […]
By Tricia Carzolinews@thewoodstockindependent.com Emricson Park was rocking well into the night on Saturday. The self-proclaimed, “Best Seven Hours of Summer,” better known as Gavers Barndance, celebrated 26 years this past […]
MCHENRY COUNTY, IL – McHenry County is under an Air Quality Alert through Friday night, July 17, as wildfire smoke is expected to cause unhealthy to very unhealthy air quality conditions. […]
Gavers Cancer Foundation It was never supposed to be this big. The original idea behind the Gavers Community Cancer Foundation Barndance was simple. Pull people together, have a good time, […]
At the end of the City Council’s June 16 public hearing on a proposed third tax increment financing district, which would facilitate development of the former Die Cast factory site, […]
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.