The Crystal Lake Central and Sterling girls basketball teams met Tuesday in a Class 3A sectional semifinal at Boylan Catholic High School in Rockford.

Crystal Lake Central faces Prairie Ridge in an IHSA Class 3A Prairie Ridge Regional basketball game on \Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at Prairie Ridge High School.

People enjoy a story at Read Between The Lynes in Woodstock during the bookshop's weekly story time. The bookshop will be hosting a special story time celebrating Paper Bag Princess Day at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 1.

Crystal Lake South faces Kaneland in the IHSA Class 3A Crystal Lake South Regional Championship girls basketball game on Friday, Feb. 20, 2025, at Crystal Lake South High School.

Images from the IHSA Girls State Gymnastics Meet on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, at Palatine High School.

Crystal Lake Central faces Burlington Central in the IHSA Class 3A Burlington Central Regional Championship girls basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, at Burlington Central High School.

Cary-Grove faces Lake Forest in the IHSA Class 3A Cary-Grove Regional Championship girls basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, at Cary-Grove High School in Cary.

Prairie Ridge faces Huntley in a Fox Valley Conference basketball game on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, at Huntley High School.

Outtakes from recent photo assignments from the Northwest Herald for Feb. 16, 2025.

Area wrestlers compete the IHSA 2A Crystal Lake Central Wrestling Sectional on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, at Crystal Lake Central High School.

Area swimmers compete in the the Fox Valley Conference Invitational swim meet on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025, at Woodstock North High School.

Area wrestlers compete in the IHSA 2A Antioch Wrestling Regional and the IHSA 1A Marengo Wrestling Regional on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025.

Johnsburg faces Woodstock in a Kishwaukee River Conference basketball game on Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, at Woodstock High School.

Athletes from the Prairie Ridge Co-op gymnastics team finished second on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in the IHSA Mundelein Gymnastics Sectional at Mundelein High School.

Inches of snow started accumulating around McHenry County Wednesday.