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The following high school students received the Student of the Semester Award for fall 2017. Freshman Matthew Frerichs Student’s ambition(s) or dream(s):  I want to go to college after high school. Parents’ comment(s) or quote:  He has always been determined with working hard. Teacher comments:  Michael is an outstanding student […]

The Mahomet-Seymour High School Chess team competed in the IHSA State Chess meet Friday and Saturday, finishing with a record of 3-4, at 67th place. The Bulldogs went into the seven rounds of competitions as the 90th seed. Although the IHSA does not break schools into enrollment divisions, Chess Sponsor […]

The Mahomet-Seymour School Board will meet on 2.12.2018 at Middletown Prairie Elementary at 7 p.m. [gview file=”https://mahometdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Meeting_Packet.pdf”]

It doesn’t get much more exciting than this for elementary students who are interested in science: Who can build the farthest rolling four-wheeled vehicle out of an assortment of ‘junk’ materials? Who can build the best paper airplane? Who can communicate how to build a structure that only the describer […]

*The student referred to in this article is a Mahomet-Seymour High School student. His/her name has been changed to protect his/her identity. Teenagers smoking in the bathrooms of their high schools may seem like a problem educators and parents had to deal with decades ago. But with new nicotine delivery […]

Ryan Martin’s journey has come full-circle. Although that was not in his plan. The Mahomet-Seymour School Board voted unanimously Monday night to approve the hire of Ryan Martin as the Assistant Principal of Middletown Prairie Elementary for the 2018-2019 school year. Martin, who has spent 13 of his 17 years […]

The Mahomet-Seymour High School WYSE (Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering) team won the Parkland Regional, scoring 496 out of 500 points, on February 3. The MSHS WYSE team has won the Regional Competition dating back to 2009, except in 2015 when they placed second. WYSE is an academic challenge […]

When Mahomet’s Mike and Brandy King went on their first missions trip to the Dominican Republic in 1999, they did not expect their lives to be changed. “Brandy and I never saw ourselves as international foreign ministry-types of people,” Mike King said. “In fact, I was more like,  ‘Look at […]

By: Fred Kroner fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour hit the Daily Double with its wrestling program on Saturday. The Bulldogs captured their fourth consecutive IHSA Regional Championship, edging runner-up Danville by 12 1/2 points, and also had individuals qualify for the Lincoln Class 2A sectional in nine of 14 weight classes. For the day, […]

Springfield, IL – State Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) will file several pieces of legislation that would strengthen oversight of gas storage sites across the state and strengthen notice requirements if a gas leak occurs. Rose’s package of legislation comes after it was discovered that a 2016 underground natural gas leak […]