By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s junior high baseball team has won two of its first three games. The team is averaging more than 10 hits per game. M-S decisioned Urbana, 17-5. Raymond Long had three hits and drove in three runs. Teammates with two hits apiece were Mason Orton, Braden […]
The Mahomet-Seymour soccer team will host their annual invitational soccer tournament on August 31 at the Middletown Soccer Field. Game 1 will feature the Bulldogs as they take on Mt. Zion at 9 a.m. Normal West will play against Washington in Game 2 at 11 a.m. At 2 p.m. the […]
The Mahomet-Seymour Class of 1969 held their 50th class reunion during the Mahomet Music Festival Weekend. The group visited Mahomet-Seymour High School. Back row L to R: Dave Sherman, Doug Turner, Mike Dillow, 3rd Row L toR: Gail Rusk Walker, Charlene Hitchens Roush, Dale Mayol, Jim Rayburn, Denny Hatcher, Mark […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Ken Keefe announced his resignation from the M-S PTO board after allegations that he did not disclose that he owned and profited from a company that processed Dawg Walk donations in 2018. In Keefe’s Facebook statement, he took time to explain the situation from his perspective. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There’s something new – besides the head coach – within the Mahomet-Seymour volleyball team this year. Captains. “We did not have a captain last year because our previous coach wanted everyone to learn how to be a leader/captain,” junior Ainsley Ranstead said. Ranstead and senior Amber […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Freshman Ainsley Winters carded the low score for Mahomet-Seymour in Thursday’s three-school girls’ golf meet at Lincolnshire Fields Country Club, in Champaign. She fired a 49 and ended in sixth individually. As a team, M-S was second with a composite of 221. Meet champion St. Thomas […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com The M-S PTO announced Monday morning that it has asked its Corresponding Executive Ken Keefe to resign his post after the group learned on Aug. 23 that he was the owner of Fund for Us LLC., the organization that handled online donations during the 2018-19 school […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Ken Keefe, who was elected to the Mahomet-Seymour School board filed an Open Meetings Act complaint with the State of Illinois’ Office of the Attorney General earlier this summer. The report came to light on August 19, 2019 when Mahomet-Seymour School Board President Max McComb read […]
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Sunny McMurray and Lisa Frerichs asked the Mahomet-Seymour School board to investigate M-S PTO’s Corresponding Executive Ken Keefe’s use of credit cards to pay for Dawg Walk prizes during the fall of 2018. McMurray began the discussion by citing her professional experience, that she has children […]
Mahomet Library has partnered with Nancy Knittel, a retired educator with extensive experience at Parkland College and at multiple area schools, to provide free small group preparation for the GED, or provide math or writing help for adults, at Mahomet Library during the 2019-2020 school year. Nancy will host 3 […]
