The Mahomet Daily provides government, school, fire protection and library news for Mahomet-Seymour readers.
The following piece was submitted by Ken Keefe, a candidates for the Mahomet-Seymour School Board. The following opinions and statements are not those of the Mahomet Daily or it’s parent company Sangamon Currents, LLC. Sangamon Currents welcomes submissions from candidates as long as they are factual (cited-we do not go […]
Champaign County residents may have an Easter egg hunt or two scheduled on their calendar over the next month. But residents don’t have to wait until the big day to find eggs. They could just visit any Champaign County Forest Preserve park. In 2018, Lake of the Woods visitors were […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour athletic teams were 3-for-3 this week in capturing wins in scored events. The girls’ soccer and softball teams opened their outdoor seasons with victories while the boys’ indoor track and field team dominated at its own invitational. The baseball team was unable to get its scheduled […]
EDITORS NOTE: Unincorporated Briarcliff, Summit Ridge and Lakeview residents received their 15-day notice of annexation last week. Much of the information in this piece comes from the Village Administration. Annexation is on the study session agenda for 3.19.2018. We will bring you more information then. Below this article is a […]
Wendy Starwalt submitted her resignation as Principal of Middletown Prairie Elementary Monday night. Starwalt was hired in 2017. Since January 2018, the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School Principal and Assistant Principal, the District Technology Coordinator, District After-School Program Coordinator, District Director of Facilities and District Transportation Director have resigned.
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Sam Tamburo is not a typical transfer. First, she transferred from a high school in Arizona to Mahomet-Seymour for her senior year. How many teen-agers willingly leave a warm-weather climate for an area that produces negative wind chills multiple times during the winter? “I missed Illinois terribly,” […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Lakeida Nichols was a three-event individual placer on Saturday for Mahomet-Seymour in the Class 2A division of the Eastern Illinois University Indoor Invitational. Nichols was third in the 60-meter dash (8.07 seconds), sixth in the 200 meters (27.13) and tied for 10th in the long jump (15 […]
The best men’s and women’s collegiate wheelchair basketball teams will come to the State Farm Center March 14-16 for the 42nd Annual National Intercollegiate Wheelchair Basketball Tournament. Games will begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday play will culminate Saturday with third and fourth place games beginning in the morning and […]
The Sangamon Valley Water District boil order for Park Hills Subdivision has been lifted as of 11 a.m. on March 8.
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles focusing on teachers and administrators who will retire from the M-S school district at the end of the school year. It was the summer of 1985. John Weimer was ready to move on to the rest […]
