The Mahomet-Seymour Board of Education approved a four-year contract for Superintendent Dr. Kenneth (Kenny) Lee, who will replace Lindsey Hall full-time beginning July 1, 2022. Lee’s contract extends to 2026 with a first-year base salary of $210,000. The salary in subsequent years will be determined by the board of education. […]
The Champaign County Forest Preserve District was recently awarded $726,900 in grant funding by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Museum Capital Grant Program to support the construction of an improved Discovery Garden, replacement greenhouse, and program facility at the Museum of the Grand Prairie, located in the Lake of […]
There’s always more than one way to get from Point A to Point B. But most people, no matter what their circumstances, never stop to ponder the options. They just go. This is how nine-and-a-half-year-old Makenna Barnes operates. “She’s a very active kid,” her mom Meredith Barnes said. Makenna swims […]
Quaint. It’s a word used by every realtor throughout the Midwest. Every Chamber of Commerce member uses this word to describe their downtown. It’s a word used to describe the unique, the small, the revived, the picturesque. These are the places where people listen to bird songs instead of trains […]
IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike is leaving the agency after three years of service. Her last day in that role will be March 14. “With all her being, she has dedicated each day — and I mean EVERY day — to the agency’s mission to protect the health and wellness […]
The Village of Mahomet approved an altered development plan with Unlimited Holdings LLC for the remainder of Harvest Edge on Feb. 22. The 18.9 acres of the 42.25 acres property located along 425E and South Mahomet Road was rezoned to R1c from R-1b. Unlimited Holdings requested the change in zoning […]
The Mahomet-Seymour School board will vote Tuesday (Feb. 22) on whether or not to accept the Bulldog Blueprint recommendation of a $97.9 million bond issue to be placed on the ballot on June 28, 2022. The language for the referendum is expected to come to the board on March 21. […]
The Mahomet-Seymour Color Guard won the 2022 IDTA State Champion Winter Guard Championship last Saturday. They also took 2nd Place with their Lyrical Flag routine. This is the third consecutive year that the Bulldogs have finished on top of their class. Mahomet-Seymour Winter Guard kicked off the 2022 season, taking […]
Cast members of the upcoming Mahomet-Seymour High School production of Fiddler on the Roof will be among the first to tell you that they don’t know much about the Jewish people who lived in the town of Anatevka in czarist Russia in 1905. Director Chris Taber knew this would most […]
The Illinois 4th District Court of Appeals has upheld the temporary restraining order on masks and vaccine mandates handed down by Sangamon County Judge Raylene Grischow. The court called the appeal request “moot” after a JCAR, a 12-member committee divided evenly between the House and Senate, and between Democrats and […]
