Mahomet Daily

Busey Bank Mahomet is accepting peanut butter donations for the Give Me Five backpack program at Lincoln Trail Elementary. Mahomet area girl scouts, boy scouts and 4-H groups are also donating peanut butter to the program. The privately-funded Give Me Five backpack program began in 2013 to supply needy Lincoln […]

Finances and peace may not be words paired together often. But Pastor Brian Romanowski has seen people break free of the bondage of debt by offering Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University at the First Baptist Church. “I’ve seen people who had $9,000 of debt paid off in 13 weeks,” Romanowski […]

The Mahomet Public Library released their new website Wednesday. The clean new design makes resources, events, services and news easy to find.

The Mahomet-Seymour School Board accepted $27,184.39 from the Mahomet-Seymour PTO on Dec. 16. The MS-PTO appropriately divides money raised during the Dawg Walk between Middletown, Sangamon and Lincoln Trail based on the number of students within each school on the sixth day of school. Prior to allocating the money, the […]

There’s nothing like performing music at home for Ashley and the Goose. Mahomet graduates, Ashley Cox and Richard Geese (“Goose”), connected three years ago when Champaign Freight picked up Cox as a vocalist. Champaign Freight split up after their lead guitarist moved to Arizona, but Goose and Cox stayed in […]

After three years in a new building, the Mahomet Public Library has put together a task force of community members to gather input on the future of the library. “This strategic planning helps us determine the major things people want so we can put the money we have in the […]

Mahomet Public Library (MPL) patrons can now find an extended eBook and audiobook catalogue through the 3M Cloud Library. MPL gained access to the 3M Cloud Library through membership with the Illinois Heartland Library System. Patrons can use their library card to directly download eBooks to eReaders, iPad and Android […]

The Mahomet-Seymour School District and ARAMARK will offer breakfast to students at Lincoln Trail and Middletown Early Childhood Center beginning Jan. 14. Mahomet-Seymour High School has served breakfast to 25 to 30 kids per day for several years. In previous years, Lincoln Trail provided breakfast for 20 to 30 students […]

A lovely mess; this is an apt phrase to describe the birth of Christ.  We have lost the imagery of this truth within our lives.  When one sees Christmas within modernity, the story of Christ has seemingly become “white noise” within the landscape of a commercialized holiday. The story is […]

Girl Scout Troop 2066 finished their community service requirements by making superhero capes for Crisis Nursery on Dec. 10. With the completed project, the girls earned their Agent of Change Journey badges. The journey included units on the Power of Me, the Power of Team and the Power of Community. […]