PAXTON – The Paxton Park Board approved an ordinance authorizing a short-term borrowing of funds not to exceed $50,000 from Frederick Community Bank in a special meeting held Tuesday. According to the ...

PAXTON – No lead was safe. The Paxton Swedes and Buckley Dutchmasters each overcame a multiple-run deficit to earn a victory in Sunday’s Eastern Illinois Baseball League doubleheader. The Swedes ...

PAXTON — The Paxton Park District’s Board of Commissioners called a special meeting for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the Paxton Civic Center, 601 S. Fall St., to approve an ordinance authorizing the ...

The Paxton Pirates won 279-173 over the Gibson Area Swim Team on Saturday. The lady Pirates defeated the GAST 181-80 while the Paxton boys won 98-93. Paxton’s Kate Niewold and Lucy Christensen ...

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No matter how far Ryland Holt traveled, he has not forgotten his home. The 2019 Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School graduate has been back in Gibson City since May 29 after playing professional ...

PONTIAC — As expected, retired Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School teacher Paul L. Meuser was sentenced to 30 months of sex offender probation Monday following his guilty plea in May to felony charges of ...

PAXTON – Paxton resident Ross Radke filed a second amendment to his civil lawsuit against the Paxton Park District in the United States District Court for the Central District on July 20. Radke ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois State Police notified the Illinois Attorney General’s Office on Friday that they were finally working to process the Ford County Chronicle's Freedom of Information Act request — ...

A former Decatur man was sentenced to 42 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of indecent solicitation of a child in Ford County Circuit Court on Monday, July 6. The sentence of three ...

PAXTON — The Paxton Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on a proposed annexation agreement to make way for a community solar project on farmland between the Colmac Coil ...

Shortly after my granddad passed away, we moved from the farm outside of Gibson City to his boyhood home that had been converted into an apartment house. The upstairs and downstairs had been divided ...