Will Brumleve | May 14, 2025
GIBSON CITY — Robbie Dinkins is appealing the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board’s decision to fire him amid claims that he maintained inappropriate relationships with students. GCMS Superintendent Jeremy Darnell said Wednesday, May 14, that he received Dinkins’ written request for a hearing — to be...
May 14, 2025
Today is Wednesday, May 14, the 134th day of 2025. There are 231 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark expedition, organized to explore the Louisiana Territory as well as the Pacific Northwest, began its journey...
Original May 31 opening date pushed back due to lifeguard trainingGIBSON CITY POOL BOARDBy MINDY BASI
Ford County Chronicle correspondent | May 14, 2025
GIBSON CITY — Gibson City’s community swimming pool will open for the summer in early June, not May 31 as originally planned, due to the lifeguard training schedule. During the Gibson City Pool Board’s May 8 meeting, assistant pool managers Rachel Dewey and Casey McCullough...
Mullins elected as vice president, Maulding secretaryPAXTON-BUCKLEY-LODA SCHOOL BOARDBy WILL BRUMLEVE
will@fordcountychronicle.com | May 14, 2025
PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley Loda school board’s longest serving member will remain its president for another two years. Dawn Bachtold of Paxton, a member of the board since April 2005 who was re-elected to her sixth four-year term last month, has served as its president...
Student taking some of most rigorous classes at PBL ‘tries for excellence in her grades and also in her understanding’PAXTON-BUCKLEY-LODA HIGH SCHOOLMay 14, 2025
PAXTON — Anna Layng of Paxton has been named student of the month for April at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School. A daughter of Mark and Cathy Layng, she was nominated for the award by her math teacher, Sheila Pickens. In her nomination, Pickens wrote: “Anna challenges...
