Photo gallery: PBL High School track and field at PBL Freshman/Sophomore Invite

PBL HS boys track places second at freshman/sophomore invitational

PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School boys track and field team finished second during Wednesday’s PBL Freshman/Sophomore Invite. The PBL boys finished with a score of 129 behind Urbana University High School (141) while the lady Panthers finished third with a score of 78 behind Watseka (134) and Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin (87). Robert Boyd-Meents finished first in the boys’ long jump with […]

Obituary: Donna Joyce McDermed

Gibson City- Dona Joyce McDermed, 80, of Gibson City peacefully passed away at 1:15 pm Saturday April 16, 2022 at the Heritage Health Nursing Home in Gibson City. A Celebration of Life service will be held at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Transitions Hospice or to Heritage Health Nursing Home. Joyce was born August 6, 1941 […]

Duley to succeed McClure as superintendent of PBL school district

By WILL [email protected] PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district’s next superintendent will be Travis Duley, who has worked in the district for 20 years, including the last eight as principal of PBL High School. During a special meeting Wednesday night, the PBL school board approved a three-year contract for Duley to serve as associate superintendent for the 2022-23 school year […]

On Arbor Day in Paxton, 3 trees to be dedicated in memory of 3 community pillars

By WILL [email protected] PAXTON — Every Arbor Day in Bill Ingold’s 17 years as Paxton’s mayor, he has dedicated a newly planted tree in memory of a prominent resident who died in the previous year. This Arbor Day, however, he will dedicate not one but three. Choosing just one person to honor on Arbor Day 2022 was just too difficult, […]

PBL JH, GCMS MS track results (April 19, 2022)

fordcountychronicle.com/2022/04/gcms-ms-boys-track-and-field-wins-home-meet JUNIOR HIGH At Gibson City 7th-grade boys Team scores 1. Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley, 77; 2. Ridgeview, 74; 3. Lexington, 26; 4. Paxton-Buckley-Loda, 22. 100-meter dash 1. Hoffman (R) 12.27; 2. Doris (L) 13.16; 3. Wooton (G) 13.58; 4. Adkins (G) 13.74; 5. Klann (P) 14.1. PBL results – 6. Turner, 15.26. GCMS results – 9. Boma, 15.66. 200-meter dash 1. […]

Former Champaign woman pleads guilty to cocaine possession, driving on revoked license

By WILL [email protected] PAXTON — A former Champaign woman already serving a four-year prison sentence for trying to defraud drug and alcohol screening tests has been sentenced to two additional years behind bars after pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance and driving with a revoked driver’s license. Christy L. Price, 51, whose last known address was in the […]