Mahomet Daily

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 […]

The Mahomet-Seymour School Board will meet at 5:45 p.m. on February 5 to vote on the hire of Ryan Martin as Assistant Principal at Middletown Prairie beginning in the 2018-2019 school year. Martin is a 1997 graduate of Mahomet-Seymour High School. He currently teaches fourth grade at Leal Elementary in […]

Lead levels higher than 5 parts-per-billion (ppb) were found in required lead testing at Lincoln Trail Elementary and Mahomet-Seymour High School.   Per Illinois Public Act 99-922, the Mahomet-Seymour School District has tested the lead levels in the water from every outlet that could be used for drinking or food […]

As February dawns on the Mahomet-Seymour School District, elementary students and parents may notice one difference: They are not raising money for the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart. During the 2016-2017 school year, Mahomet-Seymour had three schools participate in raising money through Jump Rope for Heart: Middletown Prairie, […]

Mahomet-Seymour High School choral students participated in the Illinois Music Educators’ Association (ILMEA) All-State and Honors’ Choirs in Peoria January 25-27. Students were required to audition for a spot in the ILMEA District #3 Choir in October. Seventeen students were selected to represent Mahomet-Seymour High School in the ILMEA District […]

Superintendent Lindsey Hall sent a note to parents Thursday morning, notifying them that the Bulldog Dialogue scheduled for Feb. 1 has been canceled. The email said the meeting would be rescheduled for a later date.

If you want to feel like you’re shopping through your best friend’s closet, look no further than Scarlett Moon Boutique. Mother-daughter duo Stephanie and Kayla Pfeifer decided to venture into the world of selling apparel last fall when Kayla, who graduated from the University of Illinois, shared her desire to get […]