There are 61 schools in Champaign County with a little more than 25,000 students in grades K-12. But only one educational entity in Champaign County has all those students, their parents, their grandparents and their great-grandparents in mind: the Museum of the Grand Prairie. Each year the Museum hosts exhibits, […]
Author: Dani Tietz
Miss B’s Creations offers homemade cards with reminders of what matters
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, […]
Kroner bares his heart in new autobiography
Fred Kroner isn’t done telling stories. After more than 50 years of work at The Champaign-Urbana Morning Courier, The Springfield State-Journal Register, The Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, the Mahomet Citizen and the Mahomet Daily, Kroner has also published five books highlighting everything from the Eastern Illinois Baseball League […]
A little bit of creativity goes a long way for P&J Glass
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, […]
MAYC fills in the gap with care for junior high students
School is back in session. So is fall programming at Mahomet Area Youth Club. But, like everything else in 2020, it looks a little different. The uncertainty of the summer and school year required the MAYC staff to remain flexible in order to fulfill the community’s needs for childcare as […]
Ayla Finfrock turns passion for animals into a business
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, […]
Pettenger and Evans use creativity to start a business
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, […]
Village sends new agreement to M-S district, backs away from junior high for now
According to Village of Mahomet Administrator Patrick Brown, the Village sent a new intergovernmental agreement to the Mahomet-Seymour School District on Wednesday, separating the sale of 13 Acres Park and Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School upon the direction of the Village Board of Trustees Tuesday night. The Mahomet-Seymour School Board also […]
Parents notified of two positive COVID-19 cases at Middletown Prairie
Middletown Prairie parents received an email Wednesday afternoon that two students at Middletown Prairie Elementary have tested positive for COVID-19 after the first day of school. “We are coordinating our efforts with Champaign-Urbana Public Health District to promptly identify and monitor individuals who have had recent contact with the COVID-19 […]
CUPHD issues COVID-19 Face Coverings and Gathering Restrictions Ordinance
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department has issued a COVID-19 Face Coverings and Gathering Restrictions Ordinance to protect the citizens and visitors within Champaign County from contracting SARS-Co V-2 (COVID-19) disease by preventing its transmission, and to promote public health. Unlike the Illinois Department of Public Health emergency rule, which just […]