GIBSON CITY — A Grand Rapids, Mich.- based firm has assumed management of three area Villas of Holly Brook assisted-living facilities, all of which have been sold. Priority Health officials recently ...

PAXTON — Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School will have no wrestling team this school year, Athletic Director Lindsey Mutchmore said in a letter Friday to the parents of students who were interested in ...

PAXTON — The Prairieland CEO program is sponsoring a chili cookoff from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the Pueblo Lindo Event Center at 615 N. Railroad Ave. in Paxton. The cookoff — the Prairieland ...

PAXTON — A Champaign man charged in Ford County Circuit Court with armed robbery with a firearm for his alleged role in a March 2025 holdup at Paxton’s Fulton Park is due back in court next month for ...

PAXTON — Moving forward, Ford County will likely not be involved in the special-use permitting process for renewable-energy projects and others proposed to be built entirely within a mile and a half ...

I have always been a little jealous of people who have intricate, creative and homemade Halloween costumes. Maybe it’s because as a kid, I frequently had the plastic costumes you would wear over your ...

GIBSON CITY — Thanks to a $175,000 donation from the GCMS Athletic Booster Club and a $50,000 state grant, Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school district taxpayers will be on the hook for only $56,000 of ...

PAXTON — Frizell D. Thomas, 58, of Paxton and Chicago, died at 7:10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, 2026.A memorial visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Bormann Funeral Home, 1600 ...

BUCKLEY — St. John’s Lutheran School in Buckley has released its “A” and “B” honor rolls for the first quarter of the 2026-27 school year: ‘A’ honor roll — Fifth-graders Jude Bailey, Scarlett Heisner ...

PAXTON — The Ford County Public Building Commission approved the language for its next lease agreement with the Ford County Board for the courthouse and nearby sheriff’s office and jail on Thursday, ...

LEXINGTON – The Cissna Park High School volleyball team’s defense of its 2025 IHSA Class 1A state championship came to an end on Tuesday. With a 23-25, 25-22, 26-24 loss to Illini Bluffs, the ...

My grandparents had a metalworking, repair and fabrication shop on 9th Street behind Ace Hardware in Gibson City. My dad worked there many years, and it was often the gathering center for a variety of ...