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INDEPENDENT FILE PHOTO | Crowds enjoy the Woodstock Waterworks pool a few seasons ago. After closing the pool all of last summer, the Woodstock Recreation Department plans to open for the 2021 season.

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Unexpected extended stay overseas offered personal lessons

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Electronics recycling event this weekend on Davis Road Electronics may be recycled this weekend at an event sponsored by the Rotary Club of Woodstock. Some items will involve handling and […]

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Representation sees an important shift

Did you happen to see the new Value City Furniture commercial about a girl who comes home from college? Her little brother is waiting for her, and when she comes […]

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National Poetry Month gets Woodstock’s Atrocious touch

The Atrocious Poets will celebrate National Poetry Month in Woodstock with the third annual One City, One Poet festival. Each April, the Woodstock-based literary nonprofit organizes a series of workshops, […]

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New art in Old Courthouse

Local artists display paintings at Arts Center through end of April

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Fourth-graders become barn quilt artists

Fourth-grade students at Mary Endres and Greenwood elementary schools recently learned about the history of barn quilts before making a small version of their own. Art teacher Katie Wagner read […]

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Be Careful!

The other day, a friend called me while I was driving. “Do you know that daffodil poem?” she asked. “I liked it so much when I was teaching but don’t […]

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Art venues ‘test the waters’

Stage Left Café, Opera House cope with pandemic’s capacity limits

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Playing it by the books

Not very many libraries in Illinois have a piano – but Woodstock does

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Woodstock movie house sets reopening; will film fans return?

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Return to normal life?

The Old Farmer’s Almanac lists five harbingers of spring: singing birds, running tree sap, the peeping and croaking of tiny frogs, the morning earthy smell, and the return of butterflies […]

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‘New wave of shopping’

Local + Mercantile = Locatile: online selling method for local stores

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Independent photo by Ken Farver | Developer Joe Billitteri stands inside a fifth-floor unit of the new Woodstock Square Apartments at Madison and Church streets. The building will open to tenants June 1, and Billitteri reported nine of the 30 apartments had been leased as of last week.

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New downtown high-rise to welcome first tenants on June 1

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Learning the perfect game

Former principal brings Baseball Day back to St. Mary School

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Courtesy photo | St. Mary student Colin Hernon shows the baseball card he received from former principal Ed O’Brien.

School grants backed up two years

COVID-19 interrupts D200 Education Foundation cycle

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Creekside students raise funds for wheelchair swing

When Faith Metze was asked last year to choose a Passion Project for her gifted program at Prairiewood Elementary School, the decision was easy based on her volunteer experience with […]

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Student of the week

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Maricarmen Paredes-Lopez is a freshman at Woodstock High School. She is the daughter of Luz B. Paredes and Jose L. Paredes, Woodstock. “Mari has fully embraced all the changes that […]

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Aidan Cazares is a senior at Marian Central Catholic High School. He is the son of Jose and Ericka Cazares, McHenry. “Aidan has the gift of being a natural leader. […]

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Athlete of the week

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Woodstock High School junior and varsity quarterback Liam Mickle is this week’s Athlete of the Week. In a 49-21 victory over Johnsburg High School March 26, Liam passed for […]

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Marian Central Catholic High School senior Chris Ghita has scored five goals and had three assists in seven games this season.

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New downtown high-rise to welcome first tenants on June 1

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The long, slow recovery

Rebound in real estate sales remains elusive at higher end

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Remodeling for Square apartments

Real estate developer Al Paas says that he has had “a close affinity for Woodstock for 25 years.” After Paas purchased the building at 103 Van Buren St. in 1994 […]

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