Summer is time for sports camps. While some kids attend basketball, soccer or running camp, young equestrians go to horse camp. Four little girls, decked out in breeches and helmets with notebooks in hand, peered over the arena wall at Bull Valley Equestrian Center. Their assignment was to observe the interaction between the five horses […]
Federal funding will help pave the way for the village of Bull Valley to resurface two of its main roads. The village recently was awarded $2.9 million in surface transportation funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Village President Emily Berendt said. The village will use the money to repair Bull Valley Road, from Valley […]
Home sales in the Woodstock area rose in 2016 over the previous year, according to Multiple Listing Service data. In the 60098 zip code, 421 single-family homes were sold in 2016, an increase of about 8 percent over 2015’s total of 389. The average time those houses spent on the market dipped by a month, […]
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.
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