Woodstock High School basketball has found itself in a rare place with matching record-setting, long-range shooters on each of its varsity teams. Evan Bridges for the boys and Camryn Tafoya […]
Woodstock High School alum, state champ and former WHS teacher and coach Mike Brasile will return home from Hampshire to lead the Streaks’ football program in the fall. Brasile officially […]
The Woodstock High School Blue Streaks hosted a girl’s basketball youth night Jan. 25 in conjunction with the WHS vs. Woodstock North High School crosstown game. Young basketball enthusiasts of […]
Crosstown rivals Woodstock and Woodstock North high schools faced off Dec. 12 in a Kishwaukee River Conference game at WNHS. The Streaks, who came into the matchup 1-2 in conference […]
As the weather gets colder, things are heating up in the pool at Woodstock North High School where the co-op boys swim team is getting underway with its 2017-18 season. […]
When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers played the Green Bay Packers Dec. 3 at Lambeau Field for a regular-season matchup, the game was anything but ordinary for Mike Liedtke. The 25-year-old […]
Longtime Woodstock High School teacher, coach and ardent supporter of the Blue Streaks, Bud Swartout, died Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2017, at the age of 90. Following his retirement in 1991, […]
Best known as one of Woodstock High School’s biggest supporters – a teacher who never stopped teaching – Harlow “Bud” Swartout, died Monday, Nov. 20, at the age of 90. […]
All three girls basketball teams have at least five games under their belt this season, each starting out with Thanksgiving weekend tournaments. Marian Central Catholic and Woodstock North high schools […]
Wrestlers throughout the area have been hard at work getting ready for the winter 2017-18 season. Meets will begin this week for wrestlers from Marian Central Catholic High School, Woodstock […]
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