At least I got lei’d. That’s all I can say about my performance at the Paxton Area Chamber of Commerce’s golf scramble on Friday. At the golf scramble, the chamber put on a Hawaiian theme in which a ...

I’ve called attention to the fact that this is Paul’s last inspired letter. Paul writes to Timothy, his child in the faith, ...

The president of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district’s teachers’ union told the school board on Wednesday, June 11, that ...

For several years, a gentle soul roamed the streets of Gibson City, easily identified by his signature cowboy hat and flowing ...

The Paxton Pirates swim team won its first home meet of the 2025 season on Wednesday. The lady Pirates won 188-39 over the ...

The Paxton City Council on Tuesday, June 10, approved the language for a nonbinding referendum that will appear on the next primary election ballot — on March 17, 2026 — asking Paxton voters if they ...

On a Friday in late May, while their senior classmates were walking the stage and receiving their diplomas at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, Brady Young and Isaiah Busby were some 20 miles away in ...

A lawsuit filed in Ford County Circuit Court alleges that a Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district teacher and former coach ...

The Paxton Park Board approved 2025 pool party fees during Tuesday’s meeting. Two-hour rentals for private parties at the ...

Due to incomplete information provided, the name of fourth-grader Landyn Badgley was inadvertently omitted from Clara Peterson Elementary School’s honor roll, as published in the June 4 edition of the ...

Gibson Area Music Foundation member Cindy Farris-Morano presents a $3,000 check to Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School band director Kyle Renchen as, from left, GCMS band treasurer Kaleb Lockhart, ...

EAST PEORIA — The Ford County Chronicle won 29 awards — nine more than its closest competitor — to claim the coveted Will Loomis Memorial Trophy, which recognizes the best large nondaily newspaper in ...