With Sweet Reds Patisserie and Café’s grand opening last week, the Woodstock Square once again has a local bakery in the middle of the 100 block of North Benton Street […]
“Chicago area, we’ve got this,” NBC5 traffic and news reporter Kye Martin said. “Woodstock has the Merriest Main Street – there is no debate whatsoever.” For the second time in […]
After more than a month of ferrying carloads of merchandise to Woodstock from her Ridgefield store, Deb Corcoran opened the door to The Peacock Shoppe at 120 N. Benton St. […]
I moved to Woodstock in 1984 after stumbling across a real estate ad in a national magazine for an original log cabin built in 1838. I met with the owners […]
For the first time since 2019, the Woodstock Folk Festival will be an in-person event on the Square this coming weekend, the 37th annual affair. The festival, from noon to […]
Staff Report news@the woodstockindependent.com Woodstock’s Memorial Day program has been organized by VFW Post 5040 Auxiliary President Chris Gehrke. • Ceremony at the bandstand in the Park in the Square […]
How will drivers get into downtown Woodstock this summer? That is a concern of Woodstock Square Business Connection, a seven-month-old group of downtown business owners. At last week’s City Council […]
Through the end of February this year, the Mental Health Resource League’s board members thought that Fair Diddley was a “go.” Held on the Woodstock Square on the third Sunday […]
Graciela Laureano has been a friend to Angie Reynoso’s family for many years. “She’s like a sister to me,” Reynoso said. Out shopping on the Woodstock Square one day, the […]
We don’t have to accept gerrymandered districting I was very dismayed by the tone in “Saying goodbye to our U.S. representatives” (The Independent, Dec. 15). Let’s call congressional redistricting what […]
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.
