Officials reassure students at PBL
PAXTON – The waning days of school in the Paxton-Buckley-Loda high school and junior high are being spent under heightened police security after a threat put the schools into a lockdown Tuesday afternoon.
Plainclothes officers – from Paxton, state police and the Ford County sheriff's office – staffed three stations outside the school this morning to check students' belongings before they entered.
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