Students at Middletown Prairie Elementary will get school-issued Chromebooks and tablets beginning in the 2020-21 school year. The Mahomet-Seymour School board voted to allocate $275,272 in CARES money for the 1-to-1 initiative. Mahomet-Seymour has been 1-to-1 in grades 6-12 since 2018. Used Chromebooks are rotated into Lincoln Trail for grades […]
Homes sales in Champaign County took a sharp decline in May 2020, according to a Champaign County Association of REALTORS® release. A total of 234 residential homes were sold in May, down 30.97 percent from 339 sales in May 2019. The median home sale price in May for the Champaign […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Superintendent Lindsey Hall provided a COVID-19 Reopening Task Force Update to the Mahomet-Seymour School Board on June 8. Hall likened planning for the 2020-21 school year to “building a plane while flying it.” The district, like all other districts in Illinois, are awaiting guidance from the Illinois […]
The Mahomet Parks and Recreation Department have canceled spring sports, including baseball, softball, t-ball and adult leagues in the upcoming months. “This is obviously all the hardest we’ve ever made,” MPRD Director Dan Waldinger said. “And it was obviously like we really have been thinking about it since the initial […]
Editor’s Note: The term developing story has taken on a new meaning since November 2019. At that time, many Americans read news stories about COVID-19, not thinking it would impact their lives, but come March 2020, nearly every American’s lives were turned upside down. As scientists learn about coronavirus, as […]
Four Mahomet-Seymour School board members: Merle Giles, Meghan Hennesy, Ken Keefe and Colleen Schultz, asked for a hiring freeze until the board could discuss further what the financial impact of COVID-19 might be during Monday’s school board meeting. The request came from concern of being able to maintain current staff […]
The Village of Mahomet in conjunction with the Mahomet Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday to identify some Mahomet needs and put together volunteers who would tackle those needs. Thursday the Mahomet Chamber of Commerce launched a delivery service to get goods from Mahomet IGA/Schnucks, Walgreens and CVS to residents in […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com There’s something about giving back that makes the members of Mahomet-Seymour Interact Club light up. Senior Zoe Hovde said that a club focused on making a difference in the community was something that she missed her freshman year of high school. “I was originally in Community Action […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com When my daughters were pretty little, we went to Meijer on one of our weekly grocery shopping trips. I remember putting the girls in the cart and one of them put her mouth on the metal. It was late winter, and I was horrified. About 24 hours […]
The Sangamon Valley Public Water District’s Board met on March 10, 2020 in a Special Meeting to develop a plan for mitigating and managing the impact of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) on the district’s staff and the Mahomet community. The SVPWD serves Mahomet residents that live north of I-74 and east of […]
