By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Linda Cifuentes will have to take the word of others that her cornbread recipe creation is a good one. “I didn’t even taste the dish because I am on a diet and I knew it would throw me off, but it looked really good,” Cifuentes said. Her […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Abbie Velazquez’s senior season in basketball started on Sunday. And, the former Mahomet-Seymour athlete was in the starting lineup in the ninth-annual Battle of the Border, an all-star series between athletes from western Indiana and east central Illinois. She was surprised to be included on the Illinois […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com When the school year ends, approximately 255 students — and Dianna McClughen — will be leaving Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School. The students will be promoted to high school after three years in the building. McClughen has spent 33 years at M-S junior high. Her next assignment won’t […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour amassed 33 runs and 32 hits on Tuesday in a softball doubleheader sweep of visiting Lincoln in Apollo Conference action. The Bulldogs won each game by the 10-run rule, 14-4 in the opener and 19-1 in the four-inning second game. The Bulldogs pounded seven of 17 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Seven players scored goals, six players had assists and two players had saves on Thursday as the unbeaten and unscored upon Mahomet-Seymour girls’ soccer team won at Centennial, 7-0. Brea Benson scored the first M-S goal, assisted by Madison Wade, who later had another assist and also […]
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 […]
