By Janet Dovidio news@thewoodstockindependent.com Dean Street Elementary School third-grade teacher Laura Bianchi is enhancing her classroom library with nonfiction books about unusual and even gross subjects. She is adding to her collection this year with the help of a District 200 Education Foundation Impact Grant, which she titled, ”Weirdly Wonderful Reads.” “I am purchasing books […]
The week leading up to Nov. 11 was a prime opportunity for Woodstock schools to celebrate Veterans Day. As has long been the practice, numerous schools held assemblies and breakfasts, and veterans were invited to speak in classrooms while local businesses and the VFW Post 5040 honored veterans with ceremonies, food, and the opportunity to […]
Garden at Creekside Middle Schools aims to touch on the senses Creekside Middle School life skills teacher Jennifer Moskowitz has received a D200 Education Foundation Impact Grant this year to complete a project she began with a grant in 2015-16. The funds support a sensory garden on the campus in memory of three Creekside life […]
A century ago, plans designed by Hewitt & Emerson Architect of Peoria were transformed into one of the first new school buildings in the growing city of Woodstock, which was then the typewriter capital of the world. Dean Street School, originally built as an eight-room schoolhouse, still sits among the carefully restored Victorian homes just […]
Woodstock’s usual events for Veterans Day cautiously re-emerged this year, one year after COVID had canceled most of 2020’s events. District 200 embraced veterans last Wednesday by inviting them to welcome students as they entered schools, and the students, in return, offered their appreciation along with coffee and doughnuts. Northwood Middle School, while it could […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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