Girard News

Seth Perlman/Associated Press Students at North Mac CUSD No. 34 elementary school ask questions in Randi Anderson's sixth-grade language arts class Friday in Girard, Ill.

Students at North Mac CUSD number 34 elementary school read Friday in the media center in Girard.

Every three years the board seeks bids to lease county farmland and pasture. The board decided Wednesday to advertise for bids for the 250 tillable acres and 84 acres of pasture.

Dozens of students and other protesters interrupted a Senate committee meeting Thursday to demand a popular referendum on how to resolve Chile's social problems, especially education.

Loudene Walker, 85, of Girard, died Wednesday, October 12, 2011, at her home on Sunset Lake, Girard, Illinois.