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6 days ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Gracee Majkrzak didn’t have the full four years in McHenry Community High School District 156‘s biomedical science program that students do now. Majkrzak, the keynote speaker for the program’s white coat ceremony, graduated from East High School – now the Freshman Campus – in 2020.
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6 days ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
About 30 residents met with Kelly Liebmann a few days ago, picking up some of the 100 yard signs she’s had printed to protest a proposed chicken-slaughtering facility off Greenwood Road near Wonder Lake. Liebmann serves as administrator of the Facebook group Protect Wonder Lake-No Slaughterhouse under a different name. Created April 23, the group had 237 members as of May 9. A change.org petition has 515 signers.
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6 days ago | 
nwherald.com | Janelle Walker
Many of the McHenry High School seniors who have completed the four-year biomedical science program are also now certified nursing assistants. Graduates held a white coat ceremony at the school recently.
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6 days ago | 
nwherald.com | Janelle Walker
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6 days ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
The polls are open now, giving McHenry residents until Thursday, May 15, to pick their candidate. Students from McHenry High School are vying to have their mural design – a “postcard” of the town – printed on vinyl and installed on a business wall for the next two to five years. The ballot is online at the McHenry Community High School District 156 Facebook page. A link on the Facebook page will bring voters to a Google Form.
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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Traffic on Route 176 was backed up in either direction for about an hour Thursday afternoon as crews responded to a crash in Prairie Grove, officials from the Nunda Rural Fire Protection District said. Emergency responders were called at 1:35 p.m. to the Prairie Isle Golf Course entrance, 2216 Rt. 176, for a two-car crash with moderate damage, Public Information Officer Alex Vucha said.
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1 week ago | 
nwherald.com | Janelle Walker
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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
There are very few things that throw Nikki Brosh for a loop. “I have seen worse” than most situations thrown at her now, Brosh said. She’s one of two social workers at Johnsburg Junior High School and came from a background in private and state-supported social work. She worked at Mooseheart near Batavia, The Larkin Center in Elgin and The Learning House in Wheeling, among others, before moving into Illinois public schools, first in Hebron and now at Johnsburg School District 12.
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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
One of Margaret Carey’s plans for retirement involves spending more time weaving, a hobby she picked up from her mother. Carey, principal at McHenry Elementary School District 15‘s Landmark School, inherited a large floor loom from her mother, who died from cancer during the COVID-19 years. Always one to learn new things, Carey took classes at the Chicago School of Weaving to master that loom, adding, “I have been weaving ever since.” Carey was weaving in a different way long before then.
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1 week ago | 
shawlocal.com | Janelle Walker
Family vacations to Mexico were just one of the things that made Kelsey Podgorski sure, even as a junior in high school, that she wanted a career teaching Spanish. Other experiences – studying in Spain, working with Japanese students on a U.S. Naval base for a summer and trip with middle school students to Australia – “immersed me in their cultures for more than just your average trip length,” she said.
