By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com All Mahomet-Seymour wrestling coach Rob Ledin needed to motivate his squad was to share how the regional seeds indicated a tough three-team competition. On paper, M-S was a scant four-point favorite entering Saturday’s Class 2A tournament at Urbana High School. With a margin that is anticipated to […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com As Courtney Porter reflects on the past, she still maintains the ability to look forward to the future. An interview with Porter one year ago would have been totally different than the one that took place last week. Twelve months ago, she was in the middle of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With inclement weather forecasted, Mahomet-Seymour administrators chose to keep the dance team home from the IHSA Sectional Competition.
