Field Day is ham radio’s open house. For 24 hours every fourth full weekend in June, more than 40,000 hams throughout North America set up temporary transmitting stations in public […]
In sports, you often can’t tell the players without a program. In the 2022 election, you won’t be able to tell the congressional candidates without a map. And you don’t […]
Welcome to autumn, the 2020 version. Wednesday is the first full day of fall after its arrival at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday. And if the season is anything like we’ve experienced […]
Even with his career ending one outdoor track season early at Benedictine University, Marian Central Catholic graduate Ryan Di Pietro helped the Eagles win a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference team title. […]
“Titus” 1-year-old male Titus is an energetic 1-year-old Boxer mix. He is a happy boy who loves to get in a good stretch with his paws up on you before […]
Former Woodstock High School athletic director Doug Smith was inducted into the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Hall of Fame Dec. 17 in National Harbor, Md. Smith retired in 2011 […]
Woodstock officials continue to work with Chicago developer Kenneth Rawson on his plan for Founder’s Crossing, a proposed housing development north of the Metra station. Rawson’s plan for 92 small-lot, […]
Bryson Calvin, 35, and Yesenia Galarza, 27, are Woodstock residents who are hiking the 2,180-mile Appalachian Trail, from Georgia to Maine. Bryson worked for the McHenry County Conservation District for […]
No one will be surprised, but Democrat Lauren Underwood is running for re-election to Congress in Illinois’ 14th District. The only surprise might be that she chose to make the […]
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.
