By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Mahomet Area Chamber of Commerce Overall Business of the Year is — in reality — also Person of the Year. The winner, Guth & Associates, is part of an organization which has little help. “I am affiliated with Fairlawn Real Estate as they are my managing […]
Author: Fred Kroner
Mahomet-Seymour basketball teams capture wins Saturday, swimming places fourth
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s varsity basketball teams rebounded from losses earlier in the week with victories on Saturday on the road. Boys’ basketball The Bulldogs (8-12) dropped a 45-26 decision at Lincoln on Friday, before earning a narrow 51-50 triumph on Saturday at Canton. Grant Coleman scored 13 points at […]
Four M-S Hockey Players poised to defend title
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Conrad Ebbecke, Matthew Johnson, Henry Livingston and Charlie Moore all play a cool sport. They are on a high school-age hockey team. The four Mahomet-Seymour students are members of the unbeaten Champaign Chiefs (14-0-1), who play their home-finale tonight at 7 against the Glenwood Titans at the […]
MSHS closes out regular season, girls’ basketball tops Mattoon
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Two days after placing fifth in their own 22-team Marty Williams Invitational, Mahomet-Seymour’s wrestling team returned to the mat on Wednesday and concluded its dual-meet season by splitting two Apollo Conference matches. The Bulldogs are 14-7 overall and 4-2 in league meets after topping Taylorville 49-19 and […]
Mahomet Seymour Athlete of the Month: Dante Roberts
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Parents have two choices when receiving a diagnosis that is unfavorable about a child. They can accept it, and make due as best as they can. They can reject it and independently search for alternative solutions. “The best thing for me,” Katrina Roberts said, “is to tell […]
Paul Lewis talks about release from Iran Hostage Crisis 38 years later
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Sunday was just another day for Sidney resident Paul Lewis. No parties. No parades. “I hung around the house,” he said. Exactly 38 years earlier, on Jan. 20, 1981, there was reason for Lewis and an entire country to celebrate. The longest hostage crisis situation in recorded […]
Seniors shine in girls’ basketball and wrestling wins
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Kailyn Northrup scored a season-high 19 points on Friday as the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball team snapped a six-game losing streak with a 49-41 triumph over visiting St. Thomas More. Northrup hit three of her six baskets from three-point range. Another teammate who reached a season’s high for […]
Commentary: Administrators make right decison to keep dance team home
With inclement weather forecasted, Mahomet-Seymour administrators chose to keep the dance team home from the IHSA Sectional Competition.
Brett Melton named to M-S Education Foundation Hall of Fame
Brett Melton, a Mahomet-Seymour High School graduate has been named to the Mahomet-Seymour Education Foundation Hall of Fame for his contributions to the basketball community.
MSHS Wrestling and Boys’ Basketball pick up wins
After losses in seven of its last eight games, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team returned to its winning way on Tuesday with a non-conference victory at home against Washington.