Obituary: Mark Shell

Mark D. Shell, 56 of Paxton, died at 5:05 a.m. Saturday, March 27, 2021 at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana. Private family funeral services will be held at Baier Family Funeral Services, Paxton with Rev. John Hauck officiating. Mark was born July 15, 1964 in Evanston the son of Glendal R. and Patricia Uselton Shell. He married Lynda Stinebring August 27, […]

Paxton in market for Rantoul sports complex visitors

By WILL BRUMLEVE [email protected] PAXTON — The city council’s economic development committee will meet next week to discuss ways to market Paxton as a destination for lodging, shopping and dining for visitors of Rantoul’s new state-of-the-art sports complex. “This is like an untapped resource for us in terms of tourism,” Alderman Deane Geiken, the committee’s chairman, told the Ford County […]

GCMS football seeks first win with road game at El Paso-Gridley at 2 p.m. Saturday

GIBSON CITY — To say that the 2020-21 school year has not been a typical one for the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley football team would be an understatement. As the winless Falcons prepare to play at El Paso-Gridley at 2 p.m. this upcoming Saturday, they hope to avoid something they have not experience since 2012 — a losing season. With GCMS High […]

Two new cases of COVID-19 announced in Ford County

Ford County Public Health Department (FCPHD) is announcing 2 new cases. Ford County has a total of 1,635cases. Of those, 951 are confirmed cases and 684 are probable cases. These cases are from March 26th through March 29th.There has been a total of 44 COVID-19 related deaths.Please be aware our office is still unable to provide certain statistics due to […]