
Will Brumleve | November 27, 2023
PAXTON — On the first day candidates could file their paperwork to be listed on the March 19 primary election ballot, contested races were already taking shape in Ford County. Day 1 of the filing period came to a close Monday with contests lined up...

Will Brumleve | November 22, 2023
PAXTON — Paxton aldermen agreed Monday night to meet again sometime after the Thanksgiving holiday to further discuss a proposed 3% “amusement tax” that would be added to the price of admission to concerts and other so-called for-profit “amusements” hosted at local venues like The...

Will Brumleve | November 17, 2023
PAXTON — As general manager of the newly opened Market Street Grill in downtown Paxton, Ryan Galey takes a lot of pride in providing excellent food and service to his clientele, with the goal that doing so will bring people back again and again. Having...

November 17, 2023
GIBSON CITY — Tom Dueringer of Smyrna, Tenn., formerly of the Gibson City area, presented the Ford County Historical Society with a gift on behalf of the Dueringer family — an 1860 version of a map of Illinois — during its Nov. 16 meeting at...

November 16, 2023
LODA — Valerie (Bachman) Wright, a 1995 graduate of Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School, recently published a book titled “NICU Nursing Stories: A Day in the Life of an NICU Nurse.” Wright graduated from Mennonite College of Nursing in 1999 and began her career as a registered...