Ainsley Winters and Emma Yates teamed up for the top M-S score in Monday’s Charleston Lady Trojan Scramble. Their combined score was 44 at Charleston Country Club. Bulldogs Gaby Davis and Emma Dallas carded a 46. The Bulldogs’ other two-person entry was Chloe Merkle and Kayla McKinney, whose composite score […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour opened the junior high baseball season on Monday with a 12-4 win at Tolono Unity in Brian Bajer’s debut as the M-S head coach. The teams were locked in a scoreless battle until the Bulldogs plated four runs in the top of the fourth inning. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Athletic Director Matt Hensley didn’t need to look far to find the next Mahomet-Seymour High School boys’ track and field coach. He was already in the building. In fact, the new coach already has a long history with the Bulldogs’ program. Keith Pogue served as the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Nine years ago, a summer meal program was implemented for residents of the Candlewood neighborhood in east Mahomet. While the COVID-19 pandemic has altered many of life’s routines as we used to know them, the Candlewood summer meal program – after undergoing a restructuring in format […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Nick Berger needed a 2-hole playoff to win the Lake of the Woods club championship on Saturday. Berger and Ryan Coleman each finished their 18-hole rounds with 71s. Tying for third place were Grant Kinkelaar and Troy Gagne with 74s. Coleman (67) was the winner of […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet’s Patrick and Samantha Olson are filled with love and hope as they anxiously await the arrival of their third baby. The anticipation is offset only by the uncertainty of when the moment will occur. Unlike many expectant families, who have a due date to plan […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com It all started on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Or, maybe it didn’t. As a child, Susan Hites developed a deep love for animals and can’t remember ever wanting to be anything except a veterinarian. “I never wavered on this decision from first grade on,” said Hites, […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The start of a world-wide pandemic hardly seems like the ideal time to undertake a new business venture, but Mahomet’s Brien Hawkins had to deal with opportunities as they arose. “In March, we started to get the ball rolling,” Hawkins said. Perhaps ‘rolling’ is too strong […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Before Dave Parsons’ professional career ever took flight, he headed in a different direction. After graduating from Mahomet-Seymour High School in1987, Parsons enrolled at the University of Illinois. “I was going to be a pilot,” he said. Parsons soon decided to stay grounded. “It hit me […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Izaiah Lusk shot a 77 on Thursday and was the champion in the boys’ 16-17-year-old age bracket at the annual Lake of the Woods Junior Open golf tournament. He was one of 12 challengers in the division. The runner-up was Matthew Erickson (78). Tanner Buehnerkemper (81) […]
