D200 Jazz Festival 2024
November 14, 2024
The District 200 Jazz Festival was held November 14th at Woodstock North High School. The event featured
The District 200 Jazz Festival was held November 14th at Woodstock North High School. The event featured
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. “The idea behind the kindness notes began last year when the students were challenged to perform acts of kindness following another school shooting,” said Francesca […]
About 60 family, friends, peers and faculty were treated last week to a morning performance of “Trolls” by the Creekside Middle School Life Skills and Target classes, along with their Best Buddy program peers. “These kids have worked so hard.,” Creekside Life Skills educator and “Trolls” director Natia Hong said. “I am so proud of […]
More than two dozen Woodstock School District 200 student athletes are working hard and experiencing the fun of preparing to compete in the Special Olympics. This is the 10th year Woodstock has offered this opportunity to qualified students with intellectual disabilities from the life skills and target programs. Beginning with 11 students, the program is […]
A local teachers union is covering the city of Woodstock’s expense for a marker recognizing a famous labor leader. McHenry County Federation of Teachers Local 1642 has donated $1,500 to help pay for a plaque from the Illinois State Historical Society commemorating Eugene V. Debs’ six-month imprisonment in 1895 at Woodstock’s Sheriff’s House. “Eugene Debs […]
Students from several area middle schools learned firsthand the importance of water quality, quantity and conservation in McHenry County during the Youth Groundwater Festival May 11. The McHenry County School Environmental Education Program hosted the event at the McHenry County Soil and Water Conservation District, 2222 Dean St. “All of our water comes from groundwater […]
Northwood Middle School eighth-grader Isaiah Vela pinned his opponent with 28 seconds left in the third period to win the 126-pound championship in the Illinois Elementary School Association state wrestling tournament. “I was definitely a little skeptical and a little scared, but I ended up just getting out of my head and wrestled my match,” […]
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