The Mahomet Daily provides government, school, fire protection and library news for Mahomet-Seymour readers.
Fourteen Lincoln Trail choral students were selected to perform in the ILMEA All-State Children’s Chorus at the Peoria Civic Center on Saturday, Feb 1. Top Row:Breauna Lewis, Ally McGregor, Lilyan Daniels, Maddie Reynhout, Dean Williard Middle Row:Austo Li, Tucker Loven, Levi Avery, Caroline Mills Floor:Isabelle Bohn, Autumn Booth, Sophie Kersh, […]
The Mahomet-Seymour FFA program will host its annual Dinner and Dessert Auction at Mahomet-Seymour High School on March 1 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The money raised at the Dessert and Dinner Auction will be used to help curb the expenses the FFA program has to cover each year. FFA members participate […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Their sound radiated through the Peoria Civic Center Arena. Their gleeful emotion radiated from their faces. While it was difficult to identify each singer in the pack of 200 at the ILMEA All-State and Honors Choral performances on Saturday, Feb. 1, each audience member witnessed a group […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Adults hope that the education children receive creates a ripple effect. Knowledge is poured into them, then at some point, whether in the present moment or decades down the road, they realize its value and do something with it. But a few educators get to see the […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Grammy-winning producer and writer Nick Monson thought he had a pretty clear idea about his life’s path as a teen-ager. He would go to college, play basketball and – at some point – join the coaching ranks. “My identity when I was in Oakwood was very athletics-oriented,” […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Since December, Mahomet-Seymour’s Noah Schnepper has had his sights set on one thing: to advance out of the regionals in wrestling. Schnepper will take the mat alongside his teammates on the 2019-20 Mahomet-Seymour wrestling team as the Bulldogs host an IHSA Class 2A Regional on Saturday. First-round […]
The Bulldogs will host a Class 2A regional tournament on Saturday. First-round matches will start at 9 a.m. The team favorite is Bloomington, which is ranked ninth in this week’s state poll by The Illinois Best Weekly. M-S is ranked 22nd. Also in the eight-school field is 19th-ranked Normal West. […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour scored nearly half of its points in the fourth quarter on Monday, but lost a 63-48 non-conference girls’ basketball decision at home to Urbana. The Tigers led 49-25 after three quarters. Savannah Orgeron and Makayla Rosenbery were the Bulldogs’ top scorers, each finishing with nine points. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs didn’t let the first three quarters affect what transpired in the fourth period on Tuesday. After three quarters in a non-conference boys’ basketball game at Normal Community, M-S was 0-for-4 from the free throw line. During the last eight minutes the team sunk 9 of […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com At the time current administrators and teachers were preparing to work with students, vaping was not something they were expecting to face. At the time parents of today’s teenagers had their children, “juuling” wasn’t a term. In fact, while many of those educators were working towards their […]
