PAXTON — At its meeting on Monday, May 18, the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school board approved authorizing and directing the sale of property formerly occupied by Eastlawn Elementary School. The former site of Eastlawn Elementary will be sold for a $60,000 minimum bid, and the former playground site at Eastlawn will be sold for a minimum bid of $50,000. Public notification will […]
Watseka, Iroquois West, Cissna Park leaving SVC
WATSEKA — The 2020-21 school year will be the last year that Watseka High School will be participating in the Sangamon Valley Conference. Watseka will be joining the Vermilion Valley Conference beginning in the 2021-22 school year. Along with Watseka, current SVC schools Iroquois West and Cissna Park are also moving to the VVC. Last March, Paxton-Buckley-Loda applied to join […]
PBL school board gives notice of public sale of Eastlawn property
The screenshots contained in this article is a notice of a public sale of the former site of Eastlawn Elemenary School and the adjacent lot commonly known as the former junior high school playground. The sale will be held at 2:30 p.m. June 16, 2020, at the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district office, located at 700 W. Orleans Street in Paxton.
Illinois State Representative Tom Bennett: Heading back to Springfield today
The House will be back in session today for the first time since March 5. We have a very full agenda as we are only scheduled to be in session for three days. The session will not be held at the Capitol, but will instead meet at Springfield’s downtown convention center so that we will have enough space for adequate […]
Another local business struggling through the shutdown
From Illinois State Representative Tom Bennett: A Picket Fence Florist and Market Street General Store has been in business in Paxton for 25 years. The owner, Teri Hancock is a single mom who was able to be successful enough with the business to send her son to college. But like so many others she has been having a hard time […]
Gibson City Police Department states it won’t make criminal misdemeanor arrests for violations of stay-at-home executive order
GIBSON CITY — The Gibson City Police Department stated in a letter addressed Wednesday, May 20, that it will not be making any criminal misdemeanor arrests of individuals or business owners for violations of temporary rules or executive orders. The police department stated that it is neither encouraging nor discouraging businesses or churches in Gibson City affected by Illinois Gov. […]
‘We will not be held hostage’: Gibson City mayor releases statement regarding COVID-19 executive order
The following is a statement from Gibson City Mayor Dan Dickey: We believe that all businesses, civic organizations, citizens and churches are essential to the well being of our community. We can no longer support and will not enforce the many executive orders recently issued by our Governor concerning COVID-19 as they are arbitrary and capricious and are destroying the […]
Pritzker’s emergency rule to be repealed, public health officials say
After legislators were bombarded with phone calls opposing an emergency rule filed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that made it a misdemeanor for businesses to reopen ahead of the governor’s reopening plan, public health officials said Wednesday the rule would be repealed.Pritzker’s Illinois Department of Public Health filed the emergency rule late Friday. The rule said any person who violates the […]
Ford County has 19 confirmed cases of COVID-19
PAXTON — The Ford County Public Health Department announced one new confirmed case on Wednesday, May 20. The individual is a male in his 40’s. Ford County has a total of 19 confirmed cases, including one death. Three of the confirmed cases are associated with congregate living facilities. These numbers are accurate as of 3 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. The […]
Governor’s emergency rule withdrawn
From Illinois State Representative Tom Bennett: The Governor’s emergency rule which would have allowed law enforcement to criminally charge any business which attempted to re-open before the lifting of the stay-at-home order was withdrawn just before it was set to be reviewed by the legislature’s Joint Commission on Administrative Rules today. This is a big win for the concept of […]
