
Training the trainers
Helping a peer keep her college scholarship, championing for lifelong health through a balanced diet, getting a classmate back on his feet — these are tasks of high school […]

Helping a peer keep her college scholarship, championing for lifelong health through a balanced diet, getting a classmate back on his feet — these are tasks of high school […]

This season has been frustrating for the Woodstock High School girls basketball team. The Blue Streaks entered the post season having lost nine game by five points or less. […]

What a difference eight days can make. On Feb. 4, the Woodstock North High School boys basketball team couldn’t stop the inside game of crosstown rival Woodstock High School, […]

Blue Streak Cody Brand has joined an elite club. On Feb. 14, the Woodstock High School senior became the school’s 11th girls player to score 1,000 points. “I feel very […]

Marian Central Catholic High School standout running back Ephraim Lee has committed to play football at the University of Pennsylvania, commonly referred to as Penn, located in Philadelphia. Penn, a […]

The Woodstock High School boys basketball team decided to force the issue against crosstown rival Woodstock North High School Feb. 4. The Blue Streaks had a clear height advantage […]

restlers from Marian Central Catholic, Woodstock and Woodstock North high schools competed in the IHSA Class 2A regional tournament Feb. 8 at Hampshire High School with nine wrestlers, three […]

Tuesday, April 15, is a day marked on the calendar for McHenry County College baseball player and Marian Central Catholic High School alum Lincoln Herendeen, and not because of […]

Jackie Budmayr knew this season would be different. The Marian Central Catholic High School girls basketball head coach would have to find a way to fill the void left […]

After several unseasonably mild winters with below-average snowfall and sporadic thaws, area snowmobilers finally have something to smile about. “This year we have winter with a capital ‘W’,” said Jim […]
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