Loda News

Illinois Valley Cellular has announced the names of winners for this year"s scholastic scholarship.

PAXTON – Arcelia Watson is ending a tireless career in education at the end of this month – a career that spans five decades and touched the lives of hundreds of people in the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school community.

Ryan Brown, a standout athlete from Shelbyville High School in Shelbyville, Illinois, has decided to continue his educational and athletic pursuits at Augustana in the upcoming school year.

This kid really does do it all he's in FFA, on the math team, plays baseball and football, volunteers with his church and is in band and chorus at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School.

You drive your car to the runway, then take off and fly for a couple of hours. Land the plane, and it takes 30 seconds to fold up the wings and turn it back into a car.

Bryan Paris, who is diagnosed with down-syndrome, has managed the boys basketball team his entire high school career , but on Tuesday he became a star on the court.

A former firefighter in north eastern Illinois has admitted to setting fire to his own garage.

LODA – Volunteer firefighters in this quiet farming community in southern Iroquois County were in disbelief a year and three months ago when they learned that one of their own had been arrested for arson.

PAXTON – The Paxton City Council concurred with a plan commission recommendation for new city restrictions on where wind turbines can be built outside city limits.

Conservation programs are available through the Iroquois County Soil and Water Conservation District .

Watseka Citations: Watseka Police cited Adam N. Khan, 23, Milford, at 9:41 p.m. Dec.