‘If you build it, they will come!’ Bill Dean blessed athletes, sports fans, and Woodstock Independent readers from June 1987 to March 1992. He was Woodstock Independent’s first sports editor. […]
Peter Anderson would admonish me for writing about him instead of focusing this column on the start of the 2025 –’26 school year. But I will accept Peter’s scolding from […]
Late last month, my family and I attended the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture airshow event in Oshkosh, Wis. Twenty-three years ago, I never would have dreamed I’d still be going […]
Jim Weith’s first day as a mail carrier for the U.S. Post Office in Woodstock was Jan. 5, 1987. At that time, Denise Graff Ponstein and I had plans to […]
For the past 35 years, The Woodstock Independent has been publishing articles about local educators who are retiring. We ran our first one in 1990, when reporter Lisa Kelly profiled […]
Writing this on the train from London to Edinburgh, Scotland, I feel I finally have a moment to catch my breath. During June, I made four work trips – three […]
In my experience, Woodstock is a community that comes together. Our city has been through tragedy, political strife, a pandemic, growing pains, economic crises, and loss. Through it all, when […]
We at The Independent have a policy on printing corrections when we make mistakes. That policy says simply that we take accuracy seriously, and we ask readers to let us […]
Like most Midwesterners, I enthusiastically welcome spring when the temperatures soar to 60 plus. After initially basking in the sun, indulging in some form of outdoor recreation, my seasonal bliss […]
I opened my laptop to write this column and saw the news alerts. And I knew immediately that the topic I had chosen would wait for another time. The news […]
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.
