Photo provided by: Heather Wanniger, Sweet Lemonade Photography By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet Chamber of Commerce 2020 Award WinnersOverall Business of the Year – Area Garbage, Bud BollerSmall Business of the Year –Yellow & Company, Elizabeth VanHoutan McDermithFood Service Business of the Year – Filippo’s Pizza, Brigi and Jerry ParisHealth & […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The top-seeded Mahomet-Seymour seventh-grade Bulldogs won an IESA Class 4A regional volleyball championship on Thursday at home. M-S swept past third-seeded Champaign Edison 25-23, 25-20 in the finals. The Bulldogs trailed the Comets throughout much of the first set and faced a 23-15 deficit with Edison serving. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Grant Coleman continued to do what he has been doing. Cole Lener continued to do what he has been doing. And, as a result, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team continued to do what it has been doing. The Bulldogs won their 10th consecutive game on Tuesday, a 52-49 […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Five Bulldog won matches – including a pin by senior Seth Buchanan in his last high school bout – but it wasn’t enough to help the Bulldogs to victory on Saturday. Fourth-ranked and unbeaten Antioch (22-0) upended M-S 41-26 in a Class 2A quarterfinal match in the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com For the fifth time in the past six seasons, the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team has achieved a 20-win season. The Bulldogs reached that plateau in Friday’s Senior Night regular-season finale, outscoring Mattoon in every quarter of an 80-54 triumph. The visiting Green Wave jumped ahead early, 9-2, […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Fifty years ago, the decade of the 1970s was ushered in after the conclusion of a tumultuous 1960s. Nationally, there was a President (Richard Nixon) already in office who would resign before the decade of the ‘70s was half over as corruption in Washington D.C. became […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Chloe Hanson and Isabel Lietz don’t need someone to tell them they are special. They were born that way. Officially, they only celebrate a birthday on the day they were born every four years. Hanson will celebrate for the sixth time on Saturday. For Lietz, it will […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There are reasons, Seth Schutte has learned, why things do happen and why they should happen. Sometimes these events are obvious and take place quickly. Other times, they are more veiled and take longer to materialize. Schutte is a Mahomet-Seymour High School graduate, Class of 2002. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com For the 18th time in the 37-year history of the IHSA dual-meet state series in wrestling, Mahomet-Seymour has advanced its full team to the Elite Eight. The Bulldogs earned their berth on Tuesday with a resounding 71-10 triumph over host Lincoln in a Class 2A sectional […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs placed fourth on Saturday in the Centennial Sectional. Nineteen schools scored points at the single-class meet. M-S totaled 95 points. Meet champion Champaign Central amassed 269 points and was followed by Centennial (253) and Charleston (121). The Bulldogs finished among the top four teams in […]
