Emma Wodek’s sixth-grade class at St. Mary Catholic School in Woodstock organized a St. Nick service project to help the city’s homeless population. The sixth-grade students and their second-grade prayer […]
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 […]
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