PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity baseball team ended its 2026 season with a 3-2 loss to Pontiac in the first round of IHSA Class 2A regionals on Monday. The Panthers took a 2-0 lead in the ...

Here are some sights from Sunday’s Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader in Monticello, which Buckley won 13-0 in Game 1 and 10-0 in Game 2 … ...

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Illinois families are being crushed by rising property taxes, and we are continuing to push for real relief. I was proud to join my colleagues last week to highlight a legislative package focused on ...

Those words are attributed to Rukard Hurd of the class of 1878 at Pennsylvania Military College. However, there is no proof to date he penned them. This was the second set of “lyrics” to taps. Taps ...

GIBSON CITY — Four days after the Horsch Radish announced its impending closure, citing “unsustainable costs of keeping our doors open,” a lawsuit was filed against the short-lived downtown Gibson ...

I was a driver for one of our local state senators for a few months. His was a job I would not want. He was frequently put in the position of trying to hold his political base together over a variety ...

PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity baseball team won 3-1 over Tuscola on Wednesday. On the mound, Mason Hazelwood allowed one unearned run on two hits and no walks with one strikeout through ...

The General Assembly is scheduled to complete its work and adjourn the spring session on Sunday, May 31. After that date, the state constitution requires a higher vote threshold for most legislation ...

PAXTON — Wallace Frederick “Wally” Gantter, 90, of Paxton, died at 11:37 a.m. Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. A mass of Christian burial was at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May ...

I thought I’d write this week about two topics: clowns and the government. But that would be redundant. They say you should write about what you know, but that well ran dry some time ago. I don’t know ...