On Sunday, July 12, 2026, at 12:56 p.m., the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District responded to the 10100 block of Lucas Road in unincorporated Woodstock for a reported motor vehicle crash with injuries. Arriving emergency personnel located a motorcycle down in a curve of the roadway. An adult male rider was found in a nearby ditch, where […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com A Woodstock man was trying to hurt himself when he drove his car into a local townhome, police say, after he was involved in a domestic violence incident. Matthew Zamorano, 31, is facing several charges, including a felony of aggravated domestic battery as well as criminal damage to property of $10,000 to […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Storefront windows were shattered and the building façade was damaged but no one was injured when a vehicle crashed Christmas Eve morning into the front of Berkshire Hathaway Starck Real Estate on Cass Street just west of Main Street. Two adult occupants of the vehicle were able to get out of the […]
Annual Autumn Art Tour Sept. 9-10 The 2023 Autumn Art Tour around Woodstock will be Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 9-10. A free, self-guided tour of 14 stops, the event will begin at 10 a.m. both days, ending at 5 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday. Works and craftsmanship of 17 regional artists will be on […]
Police says driver missed stop sign, caused wreck A 74-year-old Woodstock man suffered life-threatening injuries and three other people were hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash west of Woodstock. A 72-year-old Woodstock woman and her passenger, the 74-year-old man, were flown by helicopter to Condell Hospital in Libertyville after the June 23 collision. The woman suffered […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com A 74-year-old Woodstock man suffered life-threatening injuries and three other people were hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash west of Woodstock Friday afternoon. A 72-year-old Woodstock woman and her passenger, the 74-year-old man, were flown by helicopter to Condell Hospital in Libertyville. The woman suffered serious injuries. Two passengers of the second vehicle, […]
In the spring of 2020, new revenue from a voter-approved tax referendum the year before was about to start coming in when the Woodstock Fire/Rescue Board of Trustees was considering how it should be spent. The board had, the previous August, adopted a 35-page strategic plan for 2020-24 as a roadmap for upgrading staffing, equipment, […]
You could say firefighting is a tradition in Brendan Parker’s family. Parker, 46, was named chief of the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District April 27. He had been acting chief since the sudden resignation of Mike Hill in December. When Parker was named deputy chief in April 2021, his father, Phil, pinned the badge on his son’s […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.ocm Woodstock firefighters needed only one minute to get to a Dean Street house fire Friday night, but it took them 35 minutes to get the smoky blaze under control. A man in the two-story home was checked by paramedics, but he declined transport to the hospital. Three other residents were displaced by […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Two occupants of an SUV were taken to the hospital late Wednesday after they survived a fiery crash south of Woodstock. Woodstock Fire/Rescue District reported two seriously injured males were taken by ambulance to Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital. Names and conditions of the victims were not immediately available. WFRD responded shortly after […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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