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Two local women are among six McHenry County College students to receive the Education to Empowerment award, a scholarship and mentoring opportunity for women offered by the Friends of MCC […]


The Woodstock Professional & Business Women awarded four Frances Kuhn Scholarships in 2019. The awards were presented at the group’s May meeting to Hannah Konopinski, Joyce Lande, Maria Guadalupe Ortiz-Carbajal, […]






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