Mahomet Daily

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s seventh-grade volleyball team avenged a previous loss and reached the 20-win mark on Tuesday (Feb. 28), which enabled the Bulldogs to advance into the championship match of the IESA Class 4A Regional Tournament that M-S is hosting. The Bulldogs, who dropped a three-set decision to Champaign […]

By Isabella Zarate The Pinewood Derby has been a Scout tradition for nearly 70 years. What usually starts as a block of wood, plastic wheels, and metal axles often transforms into screaming kids, cheering families, and a bunch of miniature cars racing to the finish line.  For Mahomet’s Cub Scout […]

By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour girls’ track and field team is off and running. In each of their first three indoor meets, the Bulldogs have had individual standouts. Among the top performances were a 1-2 finish by 800-meter runners Ava Boyd (2 minutes, 30.72 seconds) and Chloe Bundren (2:32.11) on […]

By Fred Kroner It wasn’t as easy as 1-2-3. It wasn’t easy at all. For the second time in the last 28 years, the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team has captured back-to-back Class 3A IHSA regional championships. The most recent title came on Friday (Feb. 24) and it came on the […]

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour junior Aron Varga placed 39th on Friday (Feb. 24) in the IHSA boys’ state swimming and diving meet in the 100-yard breaststroke. Varga, the first Bulldog boy to qualify for state, covered the distance in 1 minute, 1.64 seconds, just under the school-record time he posted […]

By Fred Kroner The losses on the mats were tempered by the wins in the school record books. Mahomet-Seymour’s wrestling team ended its season with a state quarterfinal loss to Washington, 50-23, on Friday (Feb. 24) in the Class 2A state dual-team meet at Grossinger Motors Arena, in Bloomington. The […]

SPRINGFIELD – S&P Global Ratings announced Thursday that it had raised Illinois’ long-term credit rating to A-, up from BBB+, marking the seventh upgrade the state has received from a major rating agency in less than two years. The rating applies to roughly $27.7 billion in outstanding general obligation, or […]

With 32 dual meet wins under their belt, the Mahomet-Seymour wrestling team competes against Washington in the IHSA Elite 8 Friday. The Bulldogs reached the state quarterfinals by defeating Chatham Glenwood, 37-34, on Tuesday. Tallen Pawlak (152 pounds), Brennan Houser (182 pounds), Camden Harms (285 Donovan Lewis (138 pounds), Reese […]

This photo album of the Mahomet Public Library’s Murder Mystery Fundraiser was taken by Brogan Hennesy. To view the entire album visit https://mahometdaily.smugmug.com/Mahomet-Public-Library-Murder-Mystery-Night.

as Prices and Inventory Soften   Residential home sales in the Champaign County area retreated for the fourth consecutive month in January amid fluctuating interest rates, while prices softened from their record pace of growth, according to the Champaign County Association of REALTORS®. Champaign County area home sales totaled 127 units […]