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 […]
Author: Dani Tietz
Athlete of the Week: Quenton Rogers
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 […]
Uniting Pride provides community, celebration for LBGTQIA+ community
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 […]
Commentary: This snow is the chance for kids to be kids
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, […]
East Central Illinois Legacy Project: Urbana was first school district in the State to desegregate
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 […]
Village of Mahomet emergency snow routes
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 […]
Making Sense of Your Tax Dollars: Village of Mahomet Compensation Reports
All God’s Children Garage Sale on Jan. 29
East Central Illinois Legacy Project: Remembering Eva Mozes Kor
Seventy-five years ago on Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz. Approximately 1.3 million Jews were sent to Auschwitz, the largest extermination camp run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland. About 1.1 million of those people perished at the concentration camp, including 960,000 Jews. Under Hitler’s rule, 6 million […]
Village board approves commercial buildings, multi-family development in Vision South
The Village of Mahomet Board of Trustees approved conditional use permits for three mixed-use commercial buildings and a multiple-family residential development with a clubhouse on Tuesday. The board saw an updated version of the multi-family development during their regular board meeting after board members expressed concerns about the aesthetics of […]