Community action agency opening office in Paxton

PAXTON – An agency that helps poverty-stricken families take steps toward independence is setting up administrative offices in Paxton.

The East Central Illinois Community Action Agency is remodeling a building at 1195 E. Pells St., near the AmerenCIPS substation, to accommodate the new offices, as well as two classrooms for the agency's Head Start program, which has been operating out of the former West Lawn School building at 425 W. Orleans St.

Also on this date

• Volunteers defend tent city at Catholic Worker House
• Champaign police investigating shooting
• Judge terminates most of Champaign consent decree
• Board says addiction medicine needs influx of doctors
• Champaign County group to lobby for funds in D.C.
• Booths available for Westville Labor Day celebration
• Champaign police searching for robbers
• Monticello residents push for land for athletic fields
• Ex-UI trustees' chairman denies influencing admissions
• Obituaries

» More