Woodstock has made a lot of good friends from other places lately. For example, Mike Guzman of Houston, Texas, and his buddy, Bryan Stenstrup of Orlando, Florida. And Javier Rueda […]
Downtown Woodstock has a parking problem. Even with its nearly 1,400 parking spaces within a few blocks of the Square, the city has a problem. That problem, some city officials […]
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have. Woodstock City Council has borrowed that concept in its recent discussions about the structure of city government, to wit: […]
Let’s think of Woodstock’s three-month-long experience last year with a single-use bag fee as a rehearsal. Now that we have experimented with encouraging shoppers to carry reusable bags, let’s do […]
We’ve been through a lot during these past 15 month. The chart above takes us back to the beginning of pandemic protocols in Illinois, which taught us a new vocabulary, […]
Build it and they will come. Some disembodied voice famously whispered that line in a fantasy movie about an Iowa farmer who, without really knowing why, tears up his corn […]
Will we know what “normal” looks like when it returns? Apparently, we’re going to gradually be exposed to whatever “normal” is to avoid any sudden shock to our systems. In […]
C’mon, Mother Nature! As we’re trying to come out of this year-long pandemic, we’re looking to find a degree of normalcy in our public gatherings by scheduling more outside activities […]
Woodstock seems destined to have another community discussion soon on growth, not unlike we had 30 years ago during a period of unprecedented expansion of the far northwest suburbs. To […]
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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