GIBSON CITY — Residents from western Ford and eastern McLean counties affected by One Earth Sequestration’s proposed carbon sequestration project gathered near Gibson City on Tuesday, Sept. 22, to ...

ELLIOTT — Paxton has its Swedes. Gifford has its Germans. Elliott has its Norwegians. When it came time to build a church in rural Elliott, the majority Norwegian population chose a site about a mile ...

FISHER – The Fisher/Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley soccer team won 7-0 over Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin on Monday. Drew Iverson and Thomas Davis each had two goals for Fisher/GCMS (8-2-1) while Cam ...

MAHOMET – Lucas Rodeen of the Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda boys golf team earned an all-conference medal at the Illini Prairie Conference Meet on Tuesday. Rodeen tied for sixth with a score of 82. 1.

PAXTON — The Ford County Board is expecting to approve a deficit budget in November, even after further adjustments are made to reflect more accurate revenue projections. It remains to be seen exactly ...

PAXTON — On the official start of fall, city leaders met at Paxton City Hall with state lawmakers and emergency management officials on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 22, to talk about this past summer ...

PAXTON — A woman who lives near Paxton-Buckley-Loda Junior High School told school board members on Wednesday, Sept. 16, that a retention basin north of the school has been overflowing during heavy ...

MAHOMET – Grace Mullins of the Rantoul/Paxton-Buckley-Loda girls golf team finished within two strokes of placing in the Illini Prairie Conference Tournament on Tuesday. Mullins finished in a ...

THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 ‘Pumpkins, Pours & Preservation’ The Gibson City Restoration Association will sponsor a workshop on creating pumpkins out of yarn — called “Pumpkins, Pours & Preservation” — from 6 ...

PAXTON — To protect the safety of its students, the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district will begin requiring all substitute teachers and volunteers to complete mandated-reporter training for the ...

Here are some sights from Tuesday’s junior varsity and varsity matches, both of which ended in wins for PBL … ...

PAXTON — Two raised signs — one 80 and the other 25 feet high — could soon be put around the Interstate 57 interchange in Paxton to advertise the 76-brand fuel station and still-undisclosed fast-food ...