The Mahomet Area Youth Club has announced that they raised over $95,000 at their Annual Boot Scootin’ Auction on June 13. MAYC, which has a three-year $128,000 commitment to the Mahomet-Seymour School District, funds the popular after school B.L.A.S.T. program. Coming out of record lows at the club, MAYC served […]
Month: September 2014
All Net Basketball Shooting Academy coming to Mahomet
Mahomet-Seymour graduate Brett Melton will host the 1st Annual Shooting Clinic at Mahomet-Seymour High School on July 25-27. Melton’s staff will emphasize fundamental shooting mechanics, proper footwork and a quick release. They will also teach young players how to create their own shot. Melton began his collegiate career at the […]
El Toro prepares Mahomet opening
It won’t be long until Mahomet residents can get some of Central Illinois’ favorite Mexican food at El Toro. If all goes as planned, owner Victor Fuentes plans to open doors to the thirteenth El Toro site on Eastwood Dr. on Feb. 17. Fuentes began working in the restaurant business […]
Board votes speed limit changes on parts of Crowley and Prairieview Roads
Speed limits on a half-mile section of Prairieview Road and Crowley Road from State Street north of the I-74 overpass are set to change in the near future. With curb and gutter additions along Prairieview Road just south of IL Route 150 this summer, the Village will follow the 40 […]
Dawg Walk funds from students and businesses
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Mahomet, Ill. – Students at Middletown, Sangamon and Lincoln Trail Elementary raised approximately $73,000 during the Mahomet-Seymour PTO 2014 Dawg Walk fundraiser. Students will walk in the 2014 Dawg Walk during the school day on Friday. Through creative thinking by MS-PTO board members Cindy Essex and […]
The Vineyard Church plans to come to Mahomet
Leah and Ben Wenger say yes when God tells them to go. And in the unlikeliest of times, when Leah went from full-time to part time as Family Life Pastor, which oversees the youth curriculum at all Vineyard locations, God told Ben and Leah to plant a Vineyard Church in […]
Kyle spends summer in Peru
When Hannah Kyle, 18, and a recent Mahomet Seymour High school graduate, was on the long plane ride to her first Peruvian mission trip, she said she prayed to God “please bring me back home safe.” After two weeks of working with children and families in the South American country, […]
