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, […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Since graduating from college, I have continued my education in the biggest and most elaborate classroom that exists: Life. Much of the time, I learned in silence by listening. I’ve also had years to reflect. Doing so created an awakening that should have been obvious decades ago. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Once upon a time, Derrick Roy had lived his entire life in Mahomet. Once upon a time, all of Roy’s education was in the Mahomet-Seymour school district. Like all good fairy tales, this story has a happy ending. Or, in Roy’s case, a happy continuation. At age […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour split up its track and field teams on Saturday, sending individuals to compete at two locations. Some Bulldogs went to Mount Zion for the Apollo Conference Indoor Meet. Others traveled to the University of Illinois Armory, in Champaign, for the First to Finish Centennial Charger Indoor […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The boys’ basketball season ended Tuesday night for Mahomet-Seymour, which was playing its second regional tournament game in as many nights. The Bulldogs dropped a 65-56 decision to the top seed at the Rantoul Class 3A site, Champaign Central. A buzzer-beating three-pointer by the Maroons lifted them […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com I’m generally not a fan of cliches and popular expressions, but there’s one that I believe has merit. “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.” It’s with that mindset that I offer a solution to the referee shortage crisis that has reached […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Junior Grant Coleman’s fourth 30-point game of the season sparked Mahomet-Seymour to a victory in the regular-season boys’ basketball finale on Friday. The Bulldogs (11-16) handled a Mattoon team, 58-53, that they lost to at home in overtime last month. Coleman had 33 points, seven rebounds and […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Chad Hoffman didn’t have a time schedule in mind when he accepted the position as executive director of the Mahomet Area Youth Club in January, 2017. “I really was looking for it to be long-term,” Hoffman said. At the same time, he also wasn’t going to ignore […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Jon Adkins stopped playing football when he got to college in order to prepare for his future. “I was going to walk-on at Eastern Illinois University,” said Adkins, a Charleston native, “but I chose a different path. “I knew I wanted to coach and make an impact […]
