By Lydia LaGue news@thewoodstockindependent.com Spring is a time for new beginnings, and with it brings opportunities for new expressions. The Woodstock Opera House will showcase Judith Svalander School of Ballet’s […]
Folk Festival spring concert set for April 16 at Stage Left Woodstock Folk Festival has scheduled its first in-person spring concert since 2019 for 2 p.m. Sunday, April 16, at […]
Moose Lodge, Opera House, Boy Scouts, and Difference Makers were donors to the Woodstock Food Pantry during the past month. “I am in awe of the generosity of our local […]
By Eileen Millard news@thewoodstockindependent.com Broadway musicals, according to Michael Weber, are a fusion of “opera … operetta … [and] the world of American vaudeville.” Weber, artistic director of Chicago’s Porchlight […]
Introduction to community theater at Opera House for D-200 students All third-grade students in Woodstock School District 200 have been invited to the first “Let’s Put On A Show!” program […]
By Ruth Raubertas news@thewoodstockindependent.com Imagine being in the spotlight, maybe in front of an audience, with hardly any idea of what you are going to say next. That sounds scary […]
One electronic system will control access to several city government buildings, and an interior surveillance system could be linked to it. The City Council last week approved a contract for […]
By Eileen Millard news@thewoodstockindependent.com “I was thinking about doing a book about the fabulous dressmaking during the Gilded Age,” said Alison Hawthorne Deming, award-winning poet, essayist and nonfiction author. “I […]
Television’s latest loving embrace of Woodstock has come in the form of “John McGivern’s Main Streets” exploration of Woodstock. The destination travel show, a feature of PBS Wisconsin, had the […]
Creative Living speaker weaves fashionable tale Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming will be the next speaker in the Creative Living series at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at the […]
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