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 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Sam Tamburo is not a typical transfer. First, she transferred from a high school in Arizona to Mahomet-Seymour for her senior year. How many teen-agers willingly leave a warm-weather climate for an area that produces negative wind chills multiple times during the winter? “I missed Illinois terribly,” […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Lakeida Nichols was a three-event individual placer on Saturday for Mahomet-Seymour in the Class 2A division of the Eastern Illinois University Indoor Invitational. Nichols was third in the 60-meter dash (8.07 seconds), sixth in the 200 meters (27.13) and tied for 10th in the long jump (15 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles focusing on teachers and administrators who will retire from the M-S school district at the end of the school year. It was the summer of 1985. John Weimer was ready to move on to the rest […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Choirs sing. That’s what they do. Mahomet-Seymour’s 51-member Chamber Choir took to the stage last Sunday at McKinley Presbyterian Church in Champaign. The performance was not typical. The entire 20-minute piece — Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms — was sung in Hebrew. It was “a difficult feat for […]
A long season is about to come to an end. The Mahomet-Seymour Junior High wrestling team has been competing since Nov. 27, but this weekend, seven of the team’s wrestlers will finish what they started by competing in the IESA State Tournament. Eighth-grade wrestlers Caden Hatton, Brad Schoonover, Brennan Houser, […]
