The Mahomet Daily provides government, school, fire protection and library news for Mahomet-Seymour readers.
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 […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Annie Bao has a feel-good goal. Whether she is thinking about her current avocation or her future profession, happiness is what she envisions as the end result. “I want to put smiles on more people’s faces,” Bao said. She started with herself. Bao has been happily playing […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Years after the fact, Steve Rinkel can chuckle at the memories associated with the purchase of a home in Mahomet. He and his wife, Jill, were married in November, 1984, and living in southeast Urbana. By the following spring, they decided a move would be a wise […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The concept is one that many people recognize, but few embrace. Practice makes perfect. Ella Tietz gets it. The Mahomet-Seymour junior understands the correlation between effort exerted and results received. She is not a musical prodigy, but is a product of practice, which helps to explain her […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com The saying that 24-hours can change your life is true. In the 24-hours that Michael and Mason McAnally were on an Honor Flight in June, their lives were changed. What they didn’t realize until the end of the Honor Flight, though, is that those 24-hours would also […]
