BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com Whether the turkey is brining in the refrigerator or still on the grocery list for the upcoming week, a feast is about to be prepared. As families across the nation sit down to dine on the year’s finest, few think about where the food that will be […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The Mahomet-Seymour School Board on Monday approved a measure to allow students who are homeschooled to participate in extracurricular activities provided by the M-S School District. With Merle Giles and Jeremy Henrichs absent, a revision to policy 7:40 passed with three votes in favor coming from Meghan […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The Mahomet-Seymour School Board adopted two new high school courses, AP Computer Science Principles, and Lifelong Wellness with Fitness and Food, Monday night. The vote was 5-0 with Merle Giles and Jeremy Henrichs absent. The AP Computer Science Principles will be a year-long introduction to a computer […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The Champaign County Forest Preserve District is ready to develop a five-year strategic plan that will take its vision into 2025. But first, they are looking for input from their constituents in Champaign County. The process, which began in the fall of 2018, will come to a […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The 2019 growing season in East Central Illinois was unlike any farmers of this generation has seen before. From unusually wet conditions through the beginning of June, to spotty rainfall throughout the summer to snowy conditions as early as October, precipitation has ruled what farmers were able […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com What does it mean to be part of a community? Fifteen second-grade students in Mahomet-Seymour Girl Scout troop #2941 have spent much of 2019 exploring the idea. Is it a group? A town? A history? A nation? While working towards completion of the five components of the […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com When Mahomet-Seymour alum Joel Jessup told his story to Mahomet-Seymour Junior High students, it was a story that they heard before: the small boy who is transformed into a superhero. The 1999 graduate was unsure of what he wanted to do in his life as a high […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Veterans aren’t only human. Lincoln Trail Elementary students learned that veterans can also be dogs on Monday. Corporal David Cluver introduced the third to fifth-grade students to Sergeant Jady, his partner who served during Cluver’s second tour in Afghanistan. As part of the Marine Corp, Cluver first […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Maybe the extraordinary begins with the ordinary. That was the message that Mahomet-Seymour High School students heard as they listened to O’Fallon’s Marc Eccher, a Civil Engineer in the United States Air Force, during Monday morning’s Veterans Day program. “There’s a perception out there that the military […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The Illinois State Board of Education’s (ISBE) 5 Essentials Survey is now available for parents to take in order to provide feedback on school climate and learning conditions. The questions from the Parent Survey went live on Oct. 24 and will remain available until Feb. 14, 2020. […]
