The Mahomet-Seymour FFA program will host its annual Dinner and Dessert Auction at Mahomet-Seymour High School on March 1 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The money raised at the Dessert and Dinner Auction will be used to help curb the expenses the FFA program has to cover each year. FFA members participate […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Their sound radiated through the Peoria Civic Center Arena. Their gleeful emotion radiated from their faces. While it was difficult to identify each singer in the pack of 200 at the ILMEA All-State and Honors Choral performances on Saturday, Feb. 1, each audience member witnessed a group […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Adults hope that the education children receive creates a ripple effect. Knowledge is poured into them, then at some point, whether in the present moment or decades down the road, they realize its value and do something with it. But a few educators get to see the […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Since December, Mahomet-Seymour’s Noah Schnepper has had his sights set on one thing: to advance out of the regionals in wrestling. Schnepper will take the mat alongside his teammates on the 2019-20 Mahomet-Seymour wrestling team as the Bulldogs host an IHSA Class 2A Regional on Saturday. First-round […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com At the time current administrators and teachers were preparing to work with students, vaping was not something they were expecting to face. At the time parents of today’s teenagers had their children, “juuling” wasn’t a term. In fact, while many of those educators were working towards their […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The saying that 24-hours can change your life is true. In the 24-hours that Michael and Mason McAnally were on an Honor Flight in June, their lives were changed. What they didn’t realize until the end of the Honor Flight, though, is that those 24-hours would also […]
Mahomet Democrats will host a meet-and-greet with candidates who will be on the Democratic primary ballot on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at Los Zarapes (840 Eastwood Dr, Mahomet). This is an opportunity for local voters to hear directly from candidates for Congress, circuit court judge, circuit clerk, and coroner. […]
Three Mahomet-Seymour Seniors, Charlie Moore, Peter Slezak and Henry Livingston will be honored at Senior Night during the Champaign Chiefs Hockey game on Feb. 3. Danville High School senior Robert Jaruseski will also be honored. The Chiefs who currently hold third place (8-5-0) in the Lincoln Land High School Hockey […]
Pictured back row L-R: Kylie Fuoss, Jenna Ledin, Savannah Smith, Audrey Boateng, Kiana Bailey, Joshua Park. Front row L-R: Miranda Morrissette, Averhy Sanborn, Mallory Fonte, Penny Sheridan, Zoe Hovde, Tadeo Ruiz, Nick Harfst The Mahomet-Seymour Speech team is poised for the IHSA Sectional Competition on Feb. 8. The Bulldogs completed their […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com My grandmother was a devout Christian. After my grandfather passed away in the late 1970s, she moved to Waxhaw, N.C., where she joined the JAARS missionary team. She lived there for almost 20 years, helping to serve groups of people overseas and at home. She loved to […]
