By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There’s something new – besides the head coach – within the Mahomet-Seymour volleyball team this year. Captains. “We did not have a captain last year because our previous coach wanted everyone to learn how to be a leader/captain,” junior Ainsley Ranstead said. Ranstead and senior Amber […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Freshman Ainsley Winters carded the low score for Mahomet-Seymour in Thursday’s three-school girls’ golf meet at Lincolnshire Fields Country Club, in Champaign. She fired a 49 and ended in sixth individually. As a team, M-S was second with a composite of 221. Meet champion St. Thomas […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s Sam Mitchaner fired an 87 and was the second-place sophomore in Monday’s season-opening golf meet at Urbana Country Club. As a team, M-S placed eighth in the 16-team field. The Bulldogs’ composite was 371. Meet champion Champaign Central finished with a 323. Grant Harvey and […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Mahomet Music Festival will have a hometown flavor this weekend. When Onoleigh Pommier takes the stage on Saturday at 6:10 p.m., it will serve as a homecoming for the 2015 Mahomet-Seymour High School graduate. “Growing up in Mahomet, the River Festival was always a very […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Mahomet-Seymour football program is on the move. There is no sauntering to reach the practice field. “That’s part of their conditioning,” first-year head coach Jon Adkins said. “As soon as their stuff is on, they jog out there.” Adkins is among the joggers. “I wouldn’t […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com After a year of reconstruction and renovation, the pond and waterfall area at Mabery Gelvin Botanical Garden is nearly ready to re-open. Tuesday was devoted to the laying of approximately 8,000 square feet of sod that will surround the one-half acre pond. A private re-dedication for […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Homer Soda Fest is being revived. In Mahomet. An event which began in 2012, but is on hiatus this year, will resume in 2020 at the Mahomet-Seymour High School parking lot on the south side of the building. A committee of about 10 persons will […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Coaches often talk about their athletes learning life lessons through the sports in which they participate. Mahomet-Seymour first-year varsity football coach Jon Adkins put that principle into practice this summer. He asked squad members who were interested in serving as team captains to submit an application […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Clad in a cornucopia of colors, nearly 500 runners descended on Mahomet last weekend. The draw was the 24th version of Run Mahomet, a fundraiser for the Mahomet Area Youth Club featuring races at various distances. Some competitors were there hoping to achieve a first, the […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Five years ago, Mahomet’s Karen McHale decided it was important for children to see in person some historic sights they had read about in history books or had watched on videos. “I talked to a friend who was leading a trip to Washington, D.C. at the […]
