The 5 Essentials Survey is now open to students, teachers and parents through March 11. Administered by a third party, the UChicago Impact at the University of Chicago, the 5 Essentials Survey was implemented by ISBE more than eight years ago as a tool to gain confidential feedback about the […]
The St. Jude Monticello-to-Peoria Run is looking for runners with a heart for St. Jude. Founded in 2012, this year the team celebrates its 10th year running for the kids of St. Jude. The team also celebrates another special milestone this year; they will break the $500,000 mark in their […]
Students in the Mahomet-Seymour School District had the option of wearing a mask—or not—as they came to school Monday morning. The change came on the back of a temporary restraining order granted Friday by Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge Raylene Grischow in response to a lawsuit brought to the court […]
Junior Quenton Rogers has stepped up for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team during the second half of the season. At the turn of the New Year, Rogers scored a season-high 20-points and grabbed five rebounds in a win over Rantoul. Since then the 6’3” junior has left his mark in […]
Every human needs a place to belong. And yet, throughout all of time, groups of people have been separated from the whole, been made to feel as though they are less than, and even, many times, intimidated to be who they were born to be. The Mahomet-Seymour community felt a […]
There are two things I remember about snow as a child: one I considered good and the other I considered bad. We’ll start off with the bad. It seems it snowed more in rural Indiana in the 1980’s than it does now. The chance of a white Christmas was likely, […]
If you don’t know the story, you probably know of the image of six-year-old Ruby Bridges walking down the stairs outside of William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960. The small Black girl in a dress and cardigan was surrounded by three U.S. Marshalls when she […]
Beginning Wednesday, February 2nd at 2:00 a.m.- Friday, February 4th at noon, our snow routes will be in effect. When snow routes are put into effect, anyone parked in these areas will be towed at the owner’s expense. DESIGNATED SNOW ROUTES ARE AS FOLLOWS: CENTER STREETMARIETTAPEACOCKFAWN DRIVENORTH AND SOUTH GARDEN […]
