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PAXTON — With a larger crowd expected in downtown Paxton for September’s 14th annual Paxton Swine ‘N’ Dine BBQ Contest & Festival, the city is making a larger contribution to support the event. During ...

On Sunday in downtown Paxton, I was honored to gather and march with over two dozen proud patriot protestors, all of us passionately opposed to the actions and policies of President Donald Trump, his ...

PAXTON — In a lawsuit filed last week, the mother of a former Clara Peterson Elementary School first-grader claims that her daughter was inappropriately touched for months by teacher Rob Pacey during ...

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I moved here in late 1980 and on Jan. 5, 1981, started my first real job as the youth adviser for Ford County with the University of Illinois Extension Service. My office was in Melvin. I’d never ...

PAXTON — Under redevelopment agreements approved by the Paxton City Council on Tuesday, June 9, three downtown properties in the city’s tax-increment financing district will see improvements ranging ...

RANKIN — Arcelia Watson was raised on a rural Rankin farm where her family lived a hard-scrabble, almost hand-to-mouth existence. Watson refused to let poverty in her early life define her existence.

PAXTON — Before the end of this month, the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district could have a new high school principal hired. Interim Superintendent Jon Kilgore said that following the June 19 ...

PAXTON — In a lawsuit filed this week, the mother of a former Clara Peterson Elementary School first-grader claims that her daughter was inappropriately touched for months by teacher Rob Pacey during ...

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