PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School track and field teams each finished first in a four-team home meet on Thursday. The PBL seventh-grade boys finished with a score of 162 to finish ...

FAIRBURY – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda varsity softball team lost 10-0 to Prairie Central on Thursday. Jules Woodrey pitched a five-inning no hitter for Prairie Central, striking out nine batters and ...

CHAMPAIGN – The University of Illinois football team held the last of its 15 spring practices on Wednesday. The 2026 season opener will be at Gies Memorial Stadium against the University of ...

GIBSON CITY – The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley Middle School seventh- and eighth-grade boys and seventh-grade girls track and field team each won a home meet on Thursday. The GCMS seventh-grade boys ...

CLIFTON – The Cissna Park varsity baseball team lost 17-1 to Clifton Central. Seth Walder doubled while Wyatt Marcott drove in a run and Jace Comstock scored the Timberwolves’ lone run. On the mound, ...

BUCKLEY — As a necessary step toward securing an additional low-interest loan from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to help pay for the town’s proposed sanitary sewer treatment plant and ...

PAXTON — Kelsie Vaughn said Thursday that she is “very interested” in filling the Ford County clerk and recorder’s job next month when the county board considers the appointment of a replacement for ...

PAXTON — As has been tradition for 20 years every April in Paxton, a community member who died within the past year will be memorialized this Arbor Day with the dedication of a newly planted tree in ...

SPRINGFIELD — When the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed last July, millions of U.S. residents were put at risk of losing access to federal food assistance, including hundreds of thousands of ...

GIBSON CITY — The Governor Thomas Ford Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) has announced 38 student winners from three Ford County school districts in its ...

FISHER — Taylor Flynn, who has been Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School’s assistant principal since 2022, will become the principal of Fisher Grade School starting this fall. The Fisher school ...

JUNIOR HIGH 7th-grade boys Team scores 1. PBL, 113; 2. GCMS, 78; 3. Cissna Park, 54; 4. Ridgeview, 33; 5. Lexington, 3. 100-meter dash 1. Levi Turner (PBL) 12.94; 2 ...