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“At that point, I’ll have been at GCMS for over 20 years and have served in the superintendency for almost 15,” Jeremy Darnell said. “It’s good to have fresh ideas

PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district’s incoming superintendent, Eric Bohm, will begin his first year on the job on July 1 alongside a host of other new administrative staff, including some in newly created or restructured positions. That includes a yet-to-be-hired assistant superintendent of teaching and learning to replace Assistant Superintendent Tara Chandler, who is leaving PBL to become superintendent […]

GIBSON CITY — As Jeremy Darnell can attest, all good things, indeed, must come to an end. Darnell’s tenure as the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school district’s superintendent — dating back to July 1, 2016 — will see that bittersweet moment in September 2030, per the terms of his final contract approved by the school board on Wednesday, May 20. Plenty of […]

PAXTON — Paxton residents have until Monday, June 8, to opt out of the city’s electric aggregation program with Homefield Energy. A letter dated May 18 fro

PAXTON — Over the objections of Ford County’s prosecutor, the sentencing of a former Paxton pharmacist on a felony drug charge was delayed Tuesday to allow her to first complete a psychological evaluation that had been ordered by the court nearly 15 months earlier as a condition of her pretrial release. Jenna Lee Vogel, the onetime owner and head pharmacist […]

PAXTON — A former employee of Birkey's Farm Store in Gibson City was sentenced to three years in prison last week after pleading guilty to six felonies alleging he secretly videotaped adults and minors in its women's restroom. Jared D. Clark, 31, of Colfax, was charged last July in Ford County Circuit Court with a dozen counts of unauthorized video

PAXTON — While plans for the construction of a modern addition to the historical Ford County Courthouse in Paxton are far from finalized, members of the Ford County Public Building Commission now have at least an idea of what the project might look like and cost. A preliminary concept presented to the commission Friday by Cordogan, Clark & Associates Inc.,

PAXTON — Paxton aldermen spent an hour and a half reviewing an initial draft of a proposed backyard chickens ordinance on Tuesday, June 2, making edits suggested by both City Attorney Tony Schuering and themselves. The draft, using language borrowed from other municipalities’ ordinances on urban chickens, is expected to be put in finalized draft form early next month, when […]

The courthouse, dating back to 1906, is in need of more — and better-suited — space, officials have said.