The Challenger Learning Center hosts summer camps and adds new missions By Janet Dovidio news@thewoodstockindependent.com Not only did the staff of the Challenger Learning Center host 10 summer camps during […]
Quick sale of renovated vintage home shows power of ‘charm and location’ By Susan W. Murray Kathleen Labude and her second husband left Illinois for Colorado in 2020, a time […]
District 200 thanks retiring school bus drivers for decades of service By Caryl Dierksennews@thewoodstockindependent.com They say that numbers don’t lie, and in this case, it’s true. The number is 93. […]
10-year-old Ruth Dougherty performs at the Fireside Dinner Theatre, Fort Atkinson, Wis. By Janet Dovidio news@thewoodstockindependent.com Ten-year-old Woodstock resident Ruth Dougherty already has an impressive acting resumé. She is currently […]
The McHenry County Fair runs July 30 to Aug. 4 in Woodstock By Tricia Carzolinews@the woodstockindependent.com It’s county fair time in Illinois. McHenry County Fair begins in less than a […]
Council amendment adds solar farm setbacks along arterial roads By Eileen Millardnews@the woodstockindependent.com Changing attitudes about the best use of land along arterial roads leading into Woodstock resulted in a […]
Reagan Kelly, a Marian Central Catholic graduate and Woodstock resident, can answer to many adjectives. In the sport of track and field though, it does not get much more prestigious […]
Remodeling project at the AmericInn heads toward the finish line By Susan W. Murray news@thewoodstockindependent.com Quietly, so you might not yet have noticed it, the former Best Western at 990 […]
Gavers Community Cancer Foundation Barndance set to break $10 million dollars-raised mark By Tricia Carzoli news@thewoodstockindependent.com Gavers Community Cancer Foundation Barndance is almost synonymous with summer itself. For 24 years, […]
Declarations: Brigid McCormack Keeping secrets is easier said than done. Starting a new job mid-July, I had a couple weeks free to visit back home. Living in Scotland, it is […]
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.
