Fred Kronerfred@mahometnews.com Sports, it has been said, are a microcosm of society. Following up on that analogy, consider how a person’s life correlates to a basketball season. The first phase in basketball is the off-season. That corresponds nicely to the early pre-school portion of an individual’s life. Next comes the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Brea Benson and Cayla Koerner scored first-half goals and the Bulldogs’ defense didn’t allow a shot on goal on Tuesday as Mahomet-Seymour blanked St. Thomas More, 5-0, in Champaign for its fifth consecutive girls’ soccer shutout. M-S is 5-0 overall. Nyah Biegler scored the team’s final goal. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mike Mennenga shares just two things in common with the person he was eight years ago: his name and an undying passion for basketball. In 2011-12, the Rantoul native was on hiatus from his dream job as a men’s college basketball coach. He had spent the three […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Two Mahomet-Seymour athletes won individual titles on Saturday in the boys’ Class 2A division of the Illinois Prep Top Times indoor track and field meet at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center. The meet is considered the unofficial state indoor meet. Junior Hunter Hendershot defended his title in […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Take your pick. There are facts about figures. Or, a way to figure out the facts. Numbers are the starting point. There are around 7.7 billion people in the world, give or take. In Los Angeles, the population is above 4 million. In Mahomet, the number of […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour will have three athletes competing in two events on Saturday in the unofficial state indoor track and field meet at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center in Bloomington. In the boys’ Class 2A division, C.J. Shoaf is a qualifier in both the high jump and the 60-meter […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The message and the messenger often get confused. And blurred. And misunderstood. One of the tenants of good journalism is to be impartial. Plus, present both sides of an issue. Plus, be factually accurate. It can be understandable that the message gets mixed. There are exceptions, just […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Two Mahomet-Seymour athletes won individual events in the large-school division of Saturday’s Charleston Indoor Invitational at Eastern Illinois University. In his season debut, Mathias Powell posted a victory of nearly 40 seconds in the 3,200-meter race. Powell was timed in 9 minutes, 30.17 seconds. Teammate Hunter Hendershot […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour athletic teams were 3-for-3 this week in capturing wins in scored events. The girls’ soccer and softball teams opened their outdoor seasons with victories while the boys’ indoor track and field team dominated at its own invitational. The baseball team was unable to get its scheduled […]
EDITORS NOTE: Unincorporated Briarcliff, Summit Ridge and Lakeview residents received their 15-day notice of annexation last week. Much of the information in this piece comes from the Village Administration. Annexation is on the study session agenda for 3.19.2018. We will bring you more information then. Below this article is a […]
