You know it’s time for the Mahomet-Seymour school doors to open when you can hear brass instruments and percussion throughout the Mahomet valley. The 210 students who are part of the Mahomet-Seymour High School marching band kicked off the 2017 marching band season with band camp July 31 through August […]
Author: Dani Tietz
I’m Writing About Something You Don’t Want To Talk About
The events of this weekend in Charlottesville left my limbs feeling numb and my heart heavy. As I looked at the angry faces of the white men and women carrying tiki torches, I thought, ‘Some of those men and women look just like the people who would live in my […]
Village Board Agenda 8.15.2017
The Village of Mahomet Board will meet at the Village Administration Building on August 15 at 6 p.m. [gview file=”https://mahometdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/8-SS-08152017-AGENDA-FINAL.pdf”]
Sangamon River Music Festival provides Upgrade Experience
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Killer Bee Honey to perform at Lake of the Woods Summer Concert Series
The Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve welcomes the crowd pleasing Killer Bee Honey (KBH) for the Summer Concert Series on Mabery Gardens on August 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. The five-member band formed when Mahomet graduate Bryce Johnson saw a video of Jim Means perform original songs on Facebook. In what […]
Vagina Monologues performance to benefit Courage Connection at Virginia Theatre
CHAMPAIGN, IL — A gender-inclusive group of over 70 community performers are coming together for one night only to perform playwright Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to raise money and awareness for local domestic violence program Courage Connection. The show will take place at the historic Virginia Theatre in downtown […]
Breast Cancer Survivors ‘Living Legendary’ through Dragon Boating
Breast cancer survivors on a dragon boat in the middle of Central Illinois may seem absurd. But for 30 women in Champaign County, being part of the Prairie Dragon Paddlers is part of “living legendary.” “We don’t only want to be survivors, but we want to live,” Mahomet resident Sara […]
Day Trips: Sidney Dairy Barn
Sidney Dairy Barn Owner Dennis Riggs stops a former employee who came by to get ice cream on the day before she gets married and gets teary-eyed. “Do you remember the three things for happiness?” he asked. “Something…” she said. “Always have something to look forward to both near and […]
M-S Board moves to vote on hire of Johnston as project manager for phase II of Middletown Prairie
Walker’s, Lanz Heating and Cooling take MPRD summer baseball titles