The Mahomet Daily provides government, school, fire protection and library news for Mahomet-Seymour readers.
The Champaign County Forest Preserve District (CCFPD) has received a land donation of 5 acres from the Preservation and Conservation Association of Champaign County (PACA). The land is located on the north side of County Road 2600 at the Sangamon River, contiguous with the Heron View Forest Preserve expanding its […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School finished its regular season in wrestling on Saturday (Feb. 12) by winning three of five dual meets at East Peoria. The Bulldogs had entrants in 17 weight classes and each wrestler won at least one match. Finishing the day with unblemished 5-0 records […]
The Mahomet-Seymour School board will vote Tuesday (Feb. 22) on whether or not to accept the Bulldog Blueprint recommendation of a $97.9 million bond issue to be placed on the ballot on June 28, 2022. The language for the referendum is expected to come to the board on March 21. […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s varsity 3,200-meter relay placed fourth on Saturday (Feb. 19) in the Bulldogs’ season-opening girls’ indoor track and field meet at The Shirk Center, on the Illinois Wesleyan University campus in Bloomington. The foursome of Ava Boyd, Emily Bednar, Callie Jansen and Elizabeth Sims was timed in […]
By Fred Kroner Blake Wolters’ fourth double-double of the season couldn’t prevent the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team from dropping a 42-39 decision in its regular-season finale at Lincoln on Friday (Feb. 18). The Bulldogs finish Apollo Conference play with a 6-6 record. Wolters totaled 11 points and 11 rebounds to […]
By Fred Kroner The Mahomet-Seymour boys’ swimming and diving program continues to move up, and for senior Max Katz, that means the ability to move on. Katz became the school’s first sectional champion on Saturday (Feb. 19), winning the diving competition in a 21-school sectional tournament at Centennial High School. […]
By Fred Kroner A quarter of a century ago, Mahomet-Seymour’s high school enrollment had reached the point that it was moved up from the small-school classification by the IHSA to the large-school division. In those 25 years, no M-S wrestling team has fared better at the individual state tournament at […]
By Fred Kroner Forty-five years ago, the girls’ basketball program was initiated at Mahomet-Seymour High School. It took until Year 2 for the program to win a game. It took until Year 4 for the school to have a winning record. It took until Year 9 for M-S to win […]
The Mahomet-Seymour Color Guard won the 2022 IDTA State Champion Winter Guard Championship last Saturday. They also took 2nd Place with their Lyrical Flag routine. This is the third consecutive year that the Bulldogs have finished on top of their class. Mahomet-Seymour Winter Guard kicked off the 2022 season, taking […]
Cast members of the upcoming Mahomet-Seymour High School production of Fiddler on the Roof will be among the first to tell you that they don’t know much about the Jewish people who lived in the town of Anatevka in czarist Russia in 1905. Director Chris Taber knew this would most […]
