Loving and maintaining community
March 13, 2023
By Cheryl WormleyThirty-six years ago tomorrow Denise Graff Ponstein and I sat at desks in an office on the second floor of the building on the southeast corner of Van […]
By Cheryl WormleyThirty-six years ago tomorrow Denise Graff Ponstein and I sat at desks in an office on the second floor of the building on the southeast corner of Van […]
By Cheryl Wormley“What do you say to people who say they get The Independent and you know they are talking about the one that comes free the third week of […]
With readers of The Woodstock Independent as our witness, we hereby resolve, in the year 2023, to …Because journalists believe in transparency, this editor invited each contributor and staff member […]
Each year, The Woodstock Independent shares lists of stories the editors determined to be the best or most important of the previous 12 months. We publish a Yearbook that summarizes […]
Simon – Hound mix, 7 months old I was transferred to Helping Paws with my brother, all the way from a kill shelter in Southern Illinois. I am an outgoing boy […]
By Cheryl WormleyI know it isn’t even Halloween. But since this issue of The Independent is being delivered to every mailbox in ZIP code 60098, I want to tell this […]
By Cheryl WormleyIt’s the third Wednesday of September, so this week’s issue of The Independent was delivered by mail to everyone within the 60098 ZIP code – 14,000 homes and […]
Staff Reportnews@thewoodstockindependent.comJudges from the Alabama Press Association liked what they saw from The Woodstock Independent in the annual newspaper contest sponsored by the Illinois Press Association.The Independent staff won 12 […]
Staff Reportnews@the woodstockindependent.com Staff members of The Woodstock Independent have won more than 30 awards in the annual statewide contest sponsored by the Illinois Press Association.Eleven of the newspaper’s 31 awards […]
When applying for summer internships back in January of this year, I came across an email for students who wanted to work with small localized papers. Fast forward to May, […]
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.
