Paxton News

Two downtown bars were among the nine businesses in Ford and Iroquois counties that were issued citations recently for allowing smoking inside their establishments, according to information obtained by the Paxton Record through the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

The developer of the Pioneer Trail Wind Farm near Paxton is making good on its contract to repair the 35 miles of township and county roads used to build the 94-turbine wind farm last fall.

A Hoopeston man was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for stealing $3,000 from a Paxton bank through a fraudulent ATM transaction.

The state is prepared to call eight police officers and a certified public accountant as witnesses to testify in the felony theft trial of former Paxton Park District employee Beth Tabor.

A Paxton woman was killed Friday evening in a one-car accident about one-half mile south of Loda on U.S. Route 45.

Iroquois County Coroner Bill Cheatum said Toni Swan was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on U.S. 45 that also injured her husband.