Brown recluse spider found in PBL High School office
PAXTON – A poisonous brown recluse spider has been found in a third school building in Paxton, officials confirmed over the weekend.
A staff member at Paxton-Buckley-Loda High School caught a spider in the school's office on Thursday, Superintendent Cliff McClure said, and representatives of the school district's pest-control provider, Terminix, have identified it as a brown recluse.
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