By Cheryl Wormley If you have driven or walked on South Street past Woodstock High School, you’ve seen wrecking crews dismantling a mostly brick building that served the health needs […]
By Cheryl Wormley A couple of weeks ago, The Independent published its annual spring Home, Farm and Garden section. Editor Larry Lough asked me to write a column about what he calls […]
By Susan W. Murray The thud of my heart dropping came on a mid-March morning when I turned to the Northwest Herald’s obituary page and saw the face of Kirk Halma […]
By Cheryl Wormley I received my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine Feb. 18, so I’m past the two-week wait time for full effectiveness. Back in early January, I made […]
During a visit to Madison in late January 2020, I walked the commercial area east of the University of Wisconsin campus while Jordan, our younger golden retriever, was seeing his […]
By Cheryl Wormley Friday will mark a year since the first COVID-19 mandate in Illinois. I know where I was when I felt the impact of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s first […]
By Cheryl Wormley Oh, yes! I asked and you responded! Two weeks ago, Declarations focused on blooming where we are planted as the pandemic waxes on and on. I took […]
By Cheryl Wormley Perseverance, NASA’s newest Mars rover, landed on the Red Planet! Given all of the cancellations and postponements of key events in so many of our lives the […]
By Cheryl Wormley This is going to be a “rah, rah, Woodstock” column. For more than 35 years, my husband, Jim, and I have taken at least a week this […]
By Cheryl Wormley Yay! The students in our public schools are back in their classrooms for several hours a week. Imagine their joy when walking through the front doors and […]
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.
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