Sanitize surfaces, keep social distancing, move children in one direction through the hallways, do symptom checks before each school day, reduce capacity in elevators and wash your hands. Every parent and school personnel is well-versed in the daily routines that will be required to have students inside a school building […]
Author: Dani Tietz
Commentary: The action of ideals
“This board is faced with an important decision this evening,” Mahomet-Seymour School Board member Jeremy Henrichs said on August 3. “It’s been presented with an anti racism resolution. It seems that this would be an easy choice. I think all of us would agree that racism is evil. And that […]
Glover: “I want them to know that they can do anything, So I’m still hopeful”
Maybe LaShunda Glover, Susie Jackson and Maggie Kinnamon and John and Mindy Spencer were destined to be in Mahomet for this moment. Their stories span decades, but their message is succinct: they want their children and the children of their friends to feel like they belong in the community they […]
Mahomet-Seymour Board votes down committee, willing to revisit with more information
An anti-racism resolution put together by Mahomet-Seymour alumni, and modified, but recommended by Superintendent Lindsey Hall did not receive a motion for approval by the Mahomet-Seymour School board on Aug. 3. The resolution, along with a petition signed by approximately 650 alumni, was first presented to the board on June […]
Bulldogs spend week in socially-distanced marching band camp
Finally something in 2020 has gone right. Weather for this week’s Mahomet-Seymour Marching Band camp has been blessed with mid-to-upper 70’s temperatures and the blue skies have been dotted with puffy white clouds. Two weeks ago band director Michael Stevens didn’t even know if band camp or any semblance of […]
Champaign County COVID-19 Update
According to the Illinois Regional COVID-19 Resurgence Criteria on the Illinois Department of Public Health website, Region 6 has 4 days of positive increases of COVID-19 in the last 10 days. That number, along with 1-day hospital admission increases over a 10 day span (1), is down from last week. […]
Prayer gathering focuses on unity
Approximately 70 people gathered in the Mahomet Police Department parking lot to pray for first responders Monday evening. Pastor Jason Schifo of Community Evangelical Free Church Mahomet said it was time to pray for unity. Standing in the middle of a socially distanced circle, he didn’t have an agenda other […]
En Route Boutique to move to Churchill Crossing Development
Mahomet’s Jennifer Wagner feels that it’s time for her business, En Route Fashion Boutique to offer something more to the community. En Route is expected to move from the west side of town at 401 W Oak St. to the Churchill Crossing Development on east IL-150 in the fall. In […]
Classic Plumbing PLUMBER of the Month: Haken Anderson and KJ Jackson
There’s always time to learn something new. That was especially true in March, April and May. Mahomet’s Haken Anderson learned how to sew, and how to make masks during the first months of the Illinois stay-at-home order. His classmate KJ Jackson spent part the better part of July learning how […]
“Cabutti Rocks” in front of Yo Yo’s still a place for kids
To some the vertical rocks in front of Mahomet’s Yo Yo’s resemble art. To others, mostly children, they look like a climbing challenge. But to owners Matt and Alice Pommier, the rocks remind them of a time when the Sangamon Elementary playground was filled with shouting and laughter. It was […]