DAR will commemorate gravesite of revolutionary Kishwaukee Trail Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will place a bronze marker next to a historic headstone at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, where Phebe Ashley Mead Weed is buried in Marengo, in the 100 block of North East Street. Weed and her family are known […]
MCC student wins vocational scholarship from Rotary McHenry County College student Christina Murphy is getting some help from Woodstock Rotary Club for her studies in the school’s occupational therapy assistant program. In January, Murphy was named winner of Rotary’s 2021 Adult Vocational Scholarship of $2,000 toward her tuition. “The Rotary Club of Woodstock is dedicated […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Wreaths were placed on the graves of 90 military veterans in McHenry County Memorial Park as part of the Wreaths Across America project. Members of the Woodstock-based Kishwaukee Trail Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution partnered Dec. 18 with Wreaths Across America and community volunteers to place […]
DAR donates books, nooks to Home of the Sparrow Members of the Woodstock Kishwaukee Trail National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution have installed shelving and donated 600 books for two book nooks in the Home of the Sparrow transitional shelter program for homeless women and children in McHenry County. The installation is […]
Volunteer extraordinaire Jackie Speciale was most deservedly named Woman of the Year 2021 by Woodstock’s Professional & Business Women. Her many activities in Woodstock certainly are, as the club recognized, “committed to make our community a better place for all to live.” But her work with the American Red Cross has also contributed to disaster relief for […]
The Kishwaukee Trail Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution is celebrating its 60th anniversary of serving McHenry County. The chapter’s dedication to community service has endured since its founding on Aug. 28, 1961. Caroline Sobolak, regent, has been a Kishwaukee Trail Chapter daughter for 28 years. “I’ve discovered satisfaction […]
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