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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was on vacation with friends when the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran happened, which was inconvenient because I was trying to avoid the news. Normally on vacation, I treat current events the way I ...

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PAXTON — The renovation and remodeling of Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School’s science lab might be added to the school district’s list of facility maintenance projects for this summer. During the school ...