Mahomet Daily

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Thirty-four years ago, Chad Benedict was one of three sixth-graders at Mason City chosen to play for the school’s seventh-grade basketball team. Each subsequent year, Benedict has been involved with the sport, either as a player or as a coach. “I’ve been in school locker rooms […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Girls’ soccer was the only Mahomet-Seymour sport to take the field during the past week. M-S participated in the eight-school Urbana Invitational, and went 1-2 during the two-day event that ended on Saturday. In first-round action on Friday, the Bulldogs scored first, but couldn’t hold the […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com This is an unusual year for the music and drama departments at Mahomet-Seymour High School. Students and directors have been actively working on a presentation of Beauty and the Beast that will take place later this month. Many of the acting roles have not one, but […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Maria Ross believes she is still suffering lingering effects from issues she had to deal with as a high school runner under the tutelage of her Mahomet-Seymour High School coach, Bonnie Moxley. Ross, a 2017 M-S graduate, is now attending Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. “Eating […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It has been five weeks since Bonnie Moxley was relieved of all coaching duties associated with the girls’ cross-country and track and field teams at Mahomet-Seymour High School. In May, she will retire from the district as a physical education instructor, a position she has held […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The year was 1932. A subscription to the weekly Mahomet newspaper cost a dollar. That covered delivery of the paper for a full year. Students who wanted to watch the local basketball team play paid a quarter. For adults, the per-game charge was 50 cents. The […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com This is one of a continuing series the Mahomet Daily will publish about the ordinary men and women from the community who have done or accomplished extraordinary things in their lifetime. We encourage readers to submit nominations for other deserving individuals who deserve consideration. We are […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour sophomore Hunter Hendershot won the shot put in the Class 2A division of the Illinois Top Times high school indoor state championships on Saturday at Illinois Wesleyan  University. Hendershot’s winning toss was 56 feet, 5 inches. The runner-up, Dunlap’s Austin Klokkenga, had a best toss […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball and girls’ soccer squads continued their unbeaten starts to the season with wins earlier this week. Baseball The Bulldogs (3-0) overcame a five-run deficit to post a 15-5 win on Wednesday at Clinton. M-S scored six runs in the third inning, the go-ahead tally […]

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Once upon a time, in a community of less than 1,400 residents, a boys’ basketball team won every game it played one season and captured a state championship. It didn’t happen in the mind of an over-exuberant dreamer. It happened in Mahomet, Ill., nearly 60 years […]