The Mahomet Parks and Recreation Department alongside the Upper Sangamon River Conservatory hosted the 2018 Mahomet Music Festival Duck Race on Saturday. The winners are as follows. Prizes are avaialble for pickup: Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 2:00pm at 218 S. Lake of the Woods Rd.
Month: August 2018
MSHS Girls’ Cross Country debuts victorious, MSHS Sports in full swing
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Kristin Allen enjoyed a triumphant debut as Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ cross-country coach on Saturday. The Bulldogs were victorious in St. Thomas More’s Saber Corn Classic. Olympia was the runner-up and Monticello placed third. Individually, M-S had three of the top five placers as well as a fourth […]
Seaman to be honored at MSHS football game
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In early May, Jason Seaman was one of about 150 faculty members at Noblesville (Ind.) West Middle School. At a school with an enrollment of 1,400 students for the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grades, he is a seventh-grade science teacher and an eighth-grade football coach. By the […]
MSHS Volleyball picks up first win, Soccer opens with tie and Golf teams defeat Blue Ridge
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s highly touted volleyball team — ranked second in the area News-Gazette poll — opened its season on Tuesday with a two-set sweep on the road against Champaign Central. The Bulldogs posted a 25-18, 25-16 triumph with Kayin Garner handing out 11 assists. The balanced offensive […]
Farmers gearing up for early harvest
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Fall’s official arrival will occur in 29 days. That date is inflexible. There is, however, one traditional indicator of the season that could come sooner than normal this year. Fall harvest for area farmers might start within a couple of weeks. “Corn is maturing a little […]
Matthews family brings performers from Czech Republic to Mahomet
Access to the world is just one relationship away for Gary and Trudy Matthews. And through a relationship they formed during a summer visit to the Czech Republic, the Gary and Trudy are giving East Central Illinois residents access to the friends they made and the music they enjoyed this […]
Mahomet Music Festival August 24-25
The annual Mahomet Music Festival Parade will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday, August 25. The route will proceed as follows: South on Division Street, East on Union, North on Elm and West on Franklin. [one_half] Food Court Vendors [/one_half] [one_half_last] Schedule of Events Friday, August 24 5 p.m. Festival opens […]
School board to vote on extension of Johnston’s contract
The Mahomet-Seymour School Board will vote on an extension of the contract between Rick Johnston and the Mahomet-Seymour School District Monday night. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at Middletown Prairie Elementary. The former Superintendent of Mahomet-Seymour was hired on August 22, 2017 as the Project Manager for […]
Fall garage sales set for September 21 and 22
Village of Mahomet fall garage sales are scheduled for September 21 and 22. The Mahomet Daily will produce a free garage sale guide. For a garage sale lising to be included in the guide, an email with the address and description must be delivered to dani@mahometnews.com by Sept. 19.
Bulldogs Tee off 2018 Season
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The first Mahomet-Seymour high school athletic teams to swing into action for the fall season were the golf squads, which opened competition last week. Boys’ golf The Bulldogs had different leaders in their first two meets of the season. At the Tiger Kickoff Classic, at Urbana […]
