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Northwood teacher urged letter-writing


The D200 Education Foundation awarded two large Impact Grants this year. “This year the D200 Education Foundation awarded two special commemorative grants in honor of the foundation’s 25th anniversary,” said […]

On Thursday, Nov. 8, Northwood Middle School will have its 18th annual Veterans Day assembly from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the school gymnasium at 2121 N. Seminary Ave. The […]


Hundreds of sticky notes began a September secret project by the Rotary Interact Club at Creekside Middle School. Members created and anonymously stuck positive notes on all the student lockers. […]

Financing for the local school construction boom more than a decade ago started building a debt bomb that is set to go off after 2020. Woodstock School District 200 officials […]

From the time she first took the stage for a Woodstock Children’s Summer Theatre production to the day the curtain fell on her final theater performance at Woodstock North High […]

When members of Key Club at Marian Central Catholic High School decided to ”Tackle Hunger,” they made it an all-out blitz. The food drive at the school’s first home football […]

If Woodstock’s Jack Berry becomes the next great American toy tycoon, he will owe it in part to the kids in the Woodstock Parks and Recreation Department summer playground program […]

Woodstock schools are likely to have an increased police presence when classes resume Aug. 16. The D-200 School Board was expected to formalize a request Tuesday night for a second […]
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