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Community Spotlight: Loda Craft & Vendor Show
LODA, Ill. (WCIA) — The American Legion post in Loda is hosting a craft and vendor fair this weekend in support of veterans. Diane Eilts, the post’s vice president, came on The Morning Show to talk about what her post does and to preview the craft and vendor fair. There will be 21 vendors selling […]
Kendall Cox steps down from Paxton City Council
PAXTON — Mayor Bill Ingold said Friday he has already received interest from “two or three” residents in filling the Ward 3 city council seat held for the past three-plus years by Kendall Cox, who recently resigned. “He did a very good job,” Ingold said of the...
DIFFERENCE OF OPINION: City going with different project, different engineer to address flooding
PAXTON — No longer are city officials pursuing the construction of two dry retention basins behind homes on Meridian Terrace and a wetland area on the northeast side of Coady Park as part of plans to address stormwater drainage issues that have caused persistent flooding in the southeast corner of town. Instead, the Paxton City Council is considering an alternative […]
St. Anne man hired as next rec director
PAXTON — PAXTON – The Paxton Park District’s Board of Commissioners approved the hiring of Jordan Chapman of St. Anne as the district’s recreation director during a special meeting Monday evening. Chapman, 33, replaces Paxton resident Kayden Snelling, who resigned in May after about six months...
Wind power can be a major source of tax revenue, but officials struggle to get communities on board
PIPER CITY, Ill. (AP) — In Scott Saffer’s science classroom, kids bake cookies in a decked-out kitchen, care for fish, turtles and a snake, and have access to a workshop full of tools. As the gifted enrichment coordinator at Tri-Point School District, Saffer is living his teaching dream, one he knew he’d need money to accomplish. For a while, due to budgetary concerns in rural Ford County, Illinois, he moved to a neighboring school district. But when wind turbines came to town, Tri-Point had the funding to bring him back without a pay cut. There, he was one of...
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