If you follow politics, and it’s been hard not to during the past few months, you know the pundits are showing off their perfect hindsight to explain why results were […]
If being an elected public official were easy, we would know it.Ballots in local elections would be full of candidates in contested races vying for the right to represent us […]
Maybe you can’t fight City Hall, but you might be able to negotiate.Some Woodstock citizens had success with the latter approach recently when they had concerns about the city’s policies […]
Mayor Mike Turner and other city officials were decidedly upbeat recently in delivering the annual state of the city report during a luncheon hosted by the Woodstock Area Chamber of […]
For nearly five years Woodstock has had a state-allowed maximum 3 percent sales tax on legalized sales of recreational cannabis in the city. So far the tax hasn’t raised a […]
Thank you for voting. You did vote in the primary election, didn’t you – early, by mail, or in-person on March 19?Even if you didn’t have a lot of decisions […]
Woodstock city officials seem to have landed on their feet when they landed the Village Squire ownership group to operate the restaurant on the lower level of the newly renovated […]
A heavy focus of Woodstock’s annual Community Survey involved what Woodstock could do to keep residents better informed of things going on inside and with city government. One suggestion that was […]
The fact that 9/11 falls on a newspaper publication day this year gave us all pause at The Independent. Staff members recalled what they were doing on September 11, 2001, […]
Woodstock updated its underage smoking ordinance at the August 6 City Council meeting to bring it into line with a 2019 Illinois state law that raised the legal age 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.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
