It’s always fun to add someone new to The Woodstock Independent team. New faces come with new ideas, new perspectives, and new enthusiasm and this helps keep us current and moving forward. For most of the summer, we have had the pleasure of working with Amanda Burr. A 2024 graduate of Marian Central High School, […]
Let me tell you something that is 100 percent accurate: The Woodstock Independent makes mistakes. Each Tuesday morning when the printer delivers the papers to our office, the editor knows that somewhere within the thousands of words on dozens of pages he will find an error he and the staff did not catch. It doesn’t […]
By Brigid McCormack I arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Sept. 14, 2022, exactly a week after Queen Elizabeth died. The previous year, I had moved away from Woodstock, my home of 22 years, to teach English in two elementary schools in Orléans, France. Growing pains from a year of culture shock, traveling, language learning, and […]
By Cheryl Wormley As I write, it’s March 8 – day 7 of a 12-day trip to Brazil. My traveling companions are my husband, Jim; my sister Nann; and 23 Midwestern landowners and farmers. We are a congenial group, eager to see agriculture in Brazil with our own eyes. But before heading out into the […]
You ought to think about writing a letter to the editor. Everybody should. There is so much in Woodstock to write about. When people call the editor to complain about something, or ask that The Independent investigate an issue they feel strongly about, my response often is, “You should write a letter to the editor.” […]
Groundhog Days is one of those events where The Woodstock Independent’s reporters and photographers share our hometown news with beat reporters from all over the area – and beyond. We spend those several days rubbing shoulders with journalists, photographers, news anchors, and camera people from local competitors to regional news affiliates. As a veteran reporter […]
Have you broken any laws lately? If you drive, you probably went a few miles over the speed limit, nothing that would cause your name to show up among Woodstock Police Department’s arrests in the Public Safety Log, published weekly in The Independent. Those of us who drive east on Calhoun Street toward Route 47 […]
By Cheryl Wormley Woodstock has a tradition of residents volunteering to make things happen. Back in the ’60s, Woodstock was named an All-America city because of the efforts of a dozen or so residents. The Opera House was renovated in the ’70s through resident leadership. In the ’80s, students and adults rallied to raise funds […]
This is Cheryl Wormley’s space and always will be, no matter who writes the Declarations column. Readers of The Independent are accustoming to seeing Cheryl’s picture on this page to accompany her musings and observations about family, about Woodstock and its people, and about whatever was on Cheryl’s mind that she wished to share. But […]
When “Groundhog Day” premiered in February 1993, my husband, Tom, and I were first-nighters. “Are you sure you want to do that tonight?” he asked when I called him at work to pitch the idea. “It’s a Bill Murray comedy, and the theater will be packed.” But the planets had aligned so that a babysitter […]
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.
