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Resumption of in-school instruction for Woodstock School District 200 has been delayed again by COVID-19 metrics. Parents were advised in an email Thursday afternoon that the hoped-for Oct. 26 return […]


Woodstock School District 200 will wait at least another week before resuming in-class instruction. That decision was made Friday based on COVID-19 metrics reported by the McHenry County Department of […]

Woodstock High School’s campus on South Street could expand by nearly four acres with the donation of the former Woodstock Hospital building by Northwestern Medicine. Officials at Northwestern Medicine announced Wednesday […]


Woodstock School District 200 will monitor a new school metrics dashboard to determine whether schools will reopen Oct. 19. The public can check it out, too. According to a news […]

Where COVID-19 metrics stand on Oct. 16 will determine whether students in Woodstock School District 200 return to in-school instruction on the 19th. “If for some reason it goes red,” […]


Students in Woodstock School District 200 will return to classrooms Oct. 19. Most of them, anyway. Probably, but not for certain. The Board of Education voted Tuesday night for a […]
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