GIBSON CITY RESTORATION ASSOCIATIONOctober 22, 2025
The Gibson City Restoration Association’s vice president, Denis Fisher, poses with Joyce Dewey during the association’s weekly Queen of Hearts drawing on Wednesday, Oct. 15, after Dewey’s ticket was pulled from the tumbler and she chose to see what was under Card No. 49 on...
October 22, 2025
Today is Wednesday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2025. There are 70 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 22, 2012, cyclist Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and received a lifetime ban from Olympic...
Permit application details plans for former Railside Golf Course site north of cityFORD COUNTY ZONING BOARD OF APPEALSBy WILL BRUMLEVE
will@fordcountychronicle.com | October 22, 2025
GIBSON CITY — If granted special use permits to build and operate two 5-megawatt commercial solar farms just north of Gibson City on former Railside Golf Course property, developers expect construction to start next July and be finished before September, when the co-located solar farms...
For 5th consecutive year, school district projecting reduced rate on annual property tax levyPAXTON-BUCKLEY-LODA SCHOOL BOARDBy WILL BRUMLEVE
will@fordcountychronicle.com | October 22, 2025
PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley Loda school board on Wednesday, Oct. 15, reviewed a preliminary version of the school district’s 2025 property tax levy, which calls for a reduction in the district’s tax rate for a fifth consecutive year. Interim Superintendent Jon Kilgore presented the levy,...
Water operator: ‘No danger to human health’ as ‘precautions’ taken to reduce arsenic levelsELLIOTT VILLAGE BOARDBy JEAN NOELLSCH
Chronicle correspondent | October 22, 2025
ELLIOTT — Both old and new water delivery issues were covered at the Elliott Village Board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 14. Tyler Martin, the village’s certified water operator, explained the reason residents were sometimes smelling strong chlorine odors in the water. Martin said chlorine...
