LODA — Donald “J.R.” Ptacek, a former village trustee and onetime candidate for village president, was arrested for misdemeanor battery Wednesday night after allegedly chest-bumping a trustee amid a ...

CLINTON – The Cissna Park seventh-grade volleyball team entered the IESA Class 1A state tournament as a well-prepared unit. The previous year, the Wildcats finished second in the state tournament.

PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School baseball team is retooling with a program of 26 players for the 2026 season. Gone is a senior class that included college-bound players Bryar Cosgrove, ...

PAXTON — The renovation and remodeling of Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School’s science lab might be added to the school district’s list of facility maintenance projects for this summer. During the school ...

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PAXTON — Paxton Mayor Bill Ingold told city council members on Tuesday, March 10, that they should be prepared to talk further soon about the potential establishment of the city’s second tax-increment ...

PAXTON – After going 4-22 last season, the Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School softball team is set to start the 2026 campaign next week. In the meantime, the cold and rainy weather that the Panthers ...

PAXTON — The once-proud A.J. Laurence building in downtown Paxton, long ago bustling with activity, remains vacant today — just as it has for, well, every day this century, it seems. Signs of its ...

CHAMPAIGN – Dreams will soon become a reality for some outgoing University of Illinois football players. Six weeks prior to the NFL Draft, which will take place in Pittsburgh on April 23-25, Illinois ...

Larry William Sexton, 76, of Paxton passed away at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at Accolade Healthcare of Paxton Senior Living. Masonic services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 19, ...

Eldridge “Lee” L. Potts, 88, of Ashkum passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at the Veterans’ Home at Manteno. He was born on July 26, 1937 in Rantoul, a son of Cecil and Edna (Luttrell) ...