Will Brumleve | October 17, 2025
PAXTON — Robert L. “Robbie” Dinkins, a former Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley coach and teacher charged with six counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for alleged sexual activities with a high-school student, will join his two attorneys and special prosecutor Kate Kurtz in a conference call with...
Will Brumleve | October 17, 2025
PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda school board on Wednesday, Oct. 15, reviewed a preliminary version of the district’s 2025 property tax levy, which calls for a reduction in the district’s tax rate for a fifth consecutive year. Interim Superintendent Jon Kilgore presented the levy, which he...
Will Brumleve | October 16, 2025
PAXTON — The city has been awarded a $1.2 million grant through the Illinois Department of Transportation for the reconstruction of 1,000 feet of pavement on North Market Street, spanning from Oak Street to the northern city limits, plus drainage, lighting and pedestrian improvements along...
Will Brumleve | October 16, 2025
PAXTON — For the second time in two months, a judge has granted more time for attorneys representing the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district, teacher and former coach Rob Pacey, PBL Junior High School Principal Josh Didier and former Superintendents Travis Duley and Cliff McClure to file...
Will Brumleve | October 16, 2025
PAXTON — Wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, Alderman Rob Pacey sat silently behind his desk in the council chambers at Paxton City Hall as two residents of his ward — and then his seven colleagues on the city council — asked him to...
