By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It was a night for imagination and remembering. It was a night for action and drama, pomp and pageantry. It was a night for reunions and revelry. It was Homecoming 2025 – Mahomet-Seymour-style –and it was a classic example of going to a ball game and […]
M-S Schools Foundation 2025 Hall of Fame Class Kyle Kimme 1997Doug Parrett 1969Joe Sapp 2003Wendy Wagner Pierce 2001 Induction date: Friday, Sept.19, 2025 By FRED KRONER Fred@mahometnews.com Wendy Wagner Pierce began looking to her future while still in high school at Mahomet-Seymour. “I enlisted in the Army at 17 between […]
4o M-S Schools Foundation 2025 Hall of Fame Class Kyle Kimme 1997Doug Parrett 1969Joe Sapp 2003Wendy Wagner Pierce 2001 Induction date: Friday, Sept.19, 2025 By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Many ultimate success stories didn’t start out with burgeoning promise. Mahomet-Seymour graduate Joe Sapp can vouch for that statement. One of four […]
M-S Schools Foundation 2025 Hall of Fame Class Kyle Kimme 1997Doug Parrett 1969Joe Sapp 2003Wendy Wagner Pierce 2001 Induction date: Friday, Sept.19, 2025 By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com We were two kids riding on a yellow school bus, mostly over gravel roads but with a mixture of a few asphalt pavements. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour junior Courtney Fonte had an active role with the high school’s fledgling flag football team before practices started. She was a recruiter. “I have played football before, and I’ve always enjoyed it,” Fonte said. “Once I knew the idea was thrown out that we might have a […]
M-S Schools Foundation 2025 Hall of Fame Class Kyle Kimme 1997Doug Parrett 1969Joe Sapp 2003Wendy Wagner Pierce 2001 Induction date: Friday, Sept.19, 2025 By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There’s a place for Kyle Kimme at the table now. His grandfather (Darrell Alleman) is a Hall-of-Famer at Putnam County, two uncles (Scott […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It’s safe to say that Mahomet teen-ager Austin Ater knows what he is doing. In less than eight weeks during his recent summer vacation, he started a project, made it show-worthy and then showed the Grand Champion in his division at the Illinois State Fair. As […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Records are made to be broken, and there will be a day when Mary Kelly is no longer the girls’ wrestling all-time leader for career and season wins at Mahomet-Seymour. But maybe her marks should remain with an asterisk by her name. By the time she […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com For more than two decades, The News-Gazette sports staff has selected one overall area high school Athlete of the Year for boys and another for girls when the school year ends. In my opinion, this is the most intriguing pick of any made on an annual […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Changes are frequently slow in taking place. When The News-Gazette first selected an All-Area team for volleyball (in 1978), the elite team consisted of six players, just as if those athletes were going to take the court together for a match. This was a pre-libero period […]
