PAXTON – Bruce Wachowski’s resignation as Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School’s athletic director was accepted by the school board on Wednesday. The resignation from the athletic director position will be ...

PAXTON – Three meets into the indoor portion of the 2026 campaign, Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School track coach Madeleine says she is “very excited for this season.”“We have some really strong ...

GIBSON CITY – WGCY Radio and Gibson Area Hospital and Health Services in Gibson City will host the 2026 boys and girls basketball games at Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley High School on Saturday. Senior ...

As of Thursday, March 5, a total of 68 ballots had been cast in Ford County via early voting (65) and grace-period voting (3), with 159 mail-in absentee ballots returned to the county clerk and ...

CLINTON – The Cissna Park seventh-grade volleyball team entered the IESA Class 1A state tournament as a well-prepared unit. The previous year, the Wildcats finished second in the state tournament.

Cissna Park placed fourth in the IESA Class 1A state tournament after two-set losses to Ottawa Marquette in the semifinals and Decatur Unity in the third-place match. Here are some sights from those ...

DEKALB – Kasen Cargo of the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley/Fisher Middle School wrestling team won a state championship in the IESA Class 1A state meet on Saturday. Cargo pinned Sandwich’s Bentley Green in ...

PAXTON – The Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School baseball team is retooling with a program of 26 players for the 2026 season. Gone is a senior class that included college-bound players Bryar Cosgrove, ...

CLINTON – The Cissna Park Junior High School volleyball program has enjoyed its share of success over the past few years. The seventh-grade Wildcats played in their second consecutive IESA Class 1A ...

UNI HIGH MINI MEET At Champaign BOYS 60-meter dash 1. Nathaniel Burd (Armstrong) 7.38; 2. Adam Reedy (Unity) 7.4; 3. Keenon Anderson (Hoopeston Area) 7.41; 4. Easton Bolin (Westville) 7.41; 5. Aiden ...

LODA — Donald “J.R.” Ptacek, a former village trustee and onetime candidate for village president, was arrested for misdemeanor battery Wednesday night after allegedly chest-bumping a trustee amid a ...

Our caucus is advancing bipartisan legislation to close a gap in Illinois law that can prevent adoptive families from accessing important parts of a child’s foster care history. I co-sponsored Senate ...