By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The uniforms with numbers were replaced by colored T-shirts, some orange and some blue. The scoreboard clock started with 12 minutes showing and didn’t stop — unless there was a timeout — until the total time had elapsed. The referees were not there as a courtesy. […]
Author: Fred Kroner
Churm appointed to the Naval and Air Force Academies
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Joe Churm has grown accustomed to life on the move. He was born in New Hampshire and moved with his family to New Mexico as a fifth-grader. At the beginning of his eighth-grade year, the family relocated to the Mahomet-Seymour School District. During Winter Break, his […]
MSHS Girls’ Basketball and Wrestling come up with wins, Boys’ Basketball falls to Washington
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In Tuesday night action, the Mahomet-Seymour wrestling and girls’ basketball teams were victorious while the boys’ basketball team lost a six-point decision. Wrestling Seven Bulldogs won matches as the team edged Mattoon 33-31. Two of the wins were due to pins. Three others came in matches […]
Commentary: Reflecting on Skate on Main
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com photo credit: Heather Wanniger at Sweet Lemonade Photography Start with a premise that virtually everyone can agree on: Anything can be improved. Who thinks Alexander Graham Bell would have first patented the telephone if his knowledge and the technology was sufficient to have created cell phones […]
Winter rural landscapes changes, need for snow fences diminishes
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The rural landscape on winter days has fewer of the idyllic elements than what existed in a previous generation. It has nothing to do with the amount of snowfall. It has everything to do with a decreased use of snow fences. In the 1960s, ‘70s and into the […]
Mahomet-Seymour Girls’ Basketball Alumni Reunion Game Jan. 20
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com An Alumni Reunion and basketball game is a fitting gathering for those who’ve been involved with the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ basketball program over the years. Cindy Grammer Essex should know. She was part of the early tradition — as a player — and a part of the […]
MSHS Wrestlers place second at Marty Williams Invitational
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour had no individual champions, but nine top-six placers in Saturday’s 38th Marty Williams Invitational wrestling tournament. In all, 28 Bulldogs took to the mats during the day-long event — most receiving five matches — and 25 earned at least one win while 19 posted at east one […]
Mahomet-Seymour defeats Effingham in Apollo action Friday
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A trio of double-figure scorers led Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team past visiting Effingham, 68-56, Friday night. The Bulldogs are 14-4 overall after improving to 7-0 in Apollo Conference action. Cory Noe nailed 10 of 17 shots and scored a team-high 26 points. Noah Benedict had 16 […]
Fate of fifty-year old Lincoln Trail Junior Olympic tradition is vulnerable
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A longstanding tradition within the Mahomet-Seymour school district could be on its way out. After more than a half-century of holding a spring track and field Junior Olympics competition at Lincoln Trail Elementary School, the event is in limbo. Physical education teacher Lu Rippy — who […]
MSHS graduate Don Willard on officiating crew for NCAA national championship football game
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The paid attendance at Monday’s national championship football game doesn’t include a former Mahomet-Seymour letterman who was paid to be at the overtime contest in Atlanta. Don Willard (Class of 1990) was part of the Big Ten Conference officiating crew assigned to the game, won by […]
