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By: Dave Hinton
GIBSON CITY — Dennis Higgins was not afraid to get involved and to make sure things were done right. Enough so to help make preparations for an upcoming Ford County 911 Emergency Telephone System board meeting even though he was in the hospital. “Dedicated” is the word that 911 board member Jacqui Cornett, the dispatch supervisor for the Ford County […]
Tri-Point school district officials made Scott Saffer an offer he could not refuse. Like a college football or basketball coach making a pitch to an athlete they wanted to play for them, they sweetened the offer for Saffer to return as the upper elementary/junior high school’s science teacher. They promised to repurpose a 2,000-square-foot former shop/ ag area into the […]
GIBSON CITY — An open house will be scheduled to get public input on possible ways the downtown Gibson City site that currently houses the Horsch Radish restaurant can be used after it closes Sunday, May 17. Co-owner Barb Horsch said the restaurant at 209 N. Sangamon Ave. will close for good after that date due to higher operating costs. […]
PAXTON — In the back of his mind, Urbana native Gavin Granse always had the thought that he might want to go into law enforcement. There was one hitch, though. Granse thought a back injury would prevent that goal. A second medical opinion, however, gave him good news: The injury was not serious enough to prevent Granse from becoming a […]
By DAVE HINTON Ford County Chronicle PAXTON — In the back of his mind, Urbana native Gavin Granse always had the thought that he might want to go into law enforcement.
Clark is not complaining, mind you. “We had been wanting an electric one for some time,” she said. “When you go from a manual (one) all these years, it’s going to take all three of us to learn how to use it.” The new wheelchair is a gift from Paxton’s Bill Ingold to Clark’s daughter Abby, who has cerebral palsy […]
PAXTON — Joyce Knox was at her wit’s end. The Paxton woman was striking out in her attempts to find someone willing to build a wheelchair ramp at the North Taft Street home that she shares with her husband, Jeff, who had lost a leg in March from complications of diabetes. Then she reached Kevin Heiser, pastor of Paxton’s Church […]
PAXTON — A taste of Japan has come to the land of the Swedes. Tokyo Hibachi & Sushi opened recently at 442 S. Market St. in Paxton. “So far it’s good,” owner Fnu Baharruddin said of business while sitting at a picnic table outside the restaurant on a sweltering day. The new eatery had opened less than a week before. […]
PAXTON — A suspect who allegedly fled from state police and exited Interstate 57 at Paxton probably thought he had a good hiding place when he climbed a tree near the Subway restaurant on the city's southwest side on Wednesday, June 24. “The troopers lost the subject in some sort of a tree line,” Ford County sheriff's deputy Will Pound
BUCKLEY — Pending the issuance of a building permit from Iroquois County, construction of a 50-megawatt solar farm and 10-megawatt battery storage facility near Buckley is projected to begin this fall, according to developer Allium Renewable Energy of Chicago. Iroquois County Zoning Administrator Julie Feller said Allium has been issued a conditional-use permit for the so-called Louis Creek Solar project,
