The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today that additional mitigation measures could be coming for Region 6: including Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, De Witt, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Iroquois, Jasper, Lawrence, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Richland, Shelby and Vermillion counties. Champaign County data was removed from Region […]
Month: September 2020
Zach Courson hits first hole-in-one
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com One day after he earned all-Apollo Conference honors, Mahomet-Seymour junior golfer Zach Courson had another noteworthy achievement. In practice on Tuesday (Sept. 29) at Lake of the Woods, Courson collected his first career hole-in-one. It came on the 95-yard eighth hole on the Par 3 course. […]
Commentary: Let’s pass the Champaign County Forest Preserve referendum
Did you know that there are places in Champaign County where a six-foot human could feel small while walking through grass? That in the winter, when the lush forest floor is asleep, you can see trees that it would take at least five adults to hug? Where the late afternoon […]
Avah Turner and Madalyn Marx finish in Top 10
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs had two top-10 finishers on Monday (Sept. 28) and placed second in a three-school girls’ cross-country race at Mahomet’s 13 Acres Park. Meet champion Tolono Unity ended with 22 points. Runner-up M-S had 49 points and Monticello wound up third with 53 points. Avah Turner […]
Mahomet-Seymour boys’ cross country tops Unity and Monticello
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour outdistanced the field on Monday (Sept. 28) in a three-school boys’ cross-country race at 13 Acres Field. The Bulldogs finished with a team composite of 25 points. Runner-up Unity had 48 points and Monticello ended with 69 points. M-S had seven consecutive placers, starting with Auggie […]
Mount Zion defeats M-S softball twice, ending the 2020 season
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs closed the softball season with back-to-back losses to Mount Zion, the first one to end the regular season and the second one in a Class 3A IESA regional semifinal game. In the Thursday (Sept. 17 game), Mount Zion blanked the Bulldogs 14-0 in Mahomet. Ava […]
Mahomet-Seymour Baseball wins Class 3A IESA Regional Title
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs won a regional championship on Saturday (Sept. 26) by overpowering Monticello 11-5 in a Class 3A IESA postseason title game in Mahomet. Peyton Cox (5-0) pitched six innings and earned the victory. He allowed six hits, walked two and struck out four. Lucas Dyer […]
Mahomet Trick or Treat Guidelines
Trick-or-treating hours in the Village of Mahomet will be from 6-8 p.m. onSaturday, October 31. The use of face coverings, hand sanitizer, and social distancing (at least 6 feet) from others will be required at all times, when outdoors while participating or chaperoning. Trick-or-treating will be challenging amid the ongoing […]
Champaign County Back the Blue Rally Goers Show Support for Police
Groups from Mahomet, St. Joseph and Tolono met in Champaign on Sept. 19 to rally around area police officers. The nearly two-hour event, featuring former Republican Senate candidate Peggy Hubbard, featured a few hundred people on the University of Illinois campus in the late morning hours. “We all know what’s […]
Solid Rock Remote Learning Co-op fills many needs during pandemic
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com One year ago, this wouldn’t have been a story. It wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows to hear that a group of Lincoln Trail Elementary School students – five boys and six girls – are together in a classroom from Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and […]