By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Take a minute to think about your dog. Your watchdog. He is the companion who is on high alert when a visitor walks into your house or when the doorbell chimes. The guest might be your minister, your neighbor or someone looking for a way to […]
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Commentary by Fred Kroner: Words in today’s society can mean everything
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Words can hurt. They can destroy families, faith, friendships. They might be ones spoken in the heat of a family squabble. They might be well-intentioned, but misguided, such as when a mourner passes through a funeral line and tells the grieving family, “it will be alright.” […]
Polar Plunge scheduled for February 24
Bitterly cold winter temperatures draw hundreds of people to the Lake of the Woods every February. While spectators may call them crazy, they, lined up with their friends and often in costumes, call themselves plungers. But they are also there for one cause, to raise money for the Special Olympics […]
Commentary: Reflecting on Skate on Main
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com photo credit: Heather Wanniger at Sweet Lemonade Photography Start with a premise that virtually everyone can agree on: Anything can be improved. Who thinks Alexander Graham Bell would have first patented the telephone if his knowledge and the technology was sufficient to have created cell phones […]
Weekend Trips: Pokagon State Park and Toboggan run
I get sucked into Instagram sometimes. I look at travel sites and want to travel both near and far to see all of the glorious places that the snapshot captured. It’s actually kind of a running joke between my person and myself. I’ll say, “Let’s go see the pelicans migrating […]
The bigger picture of drug addiction
By FRED KRONER For The Mahomet Daily Full disclosure: I don’t know Richard Stover, nor do I know the entire history of his troubled background. This much I do know. The tragedy that ended Friday with his arrest for the murder of a 60-year-old relative, Betty J. Stover, did not […]
A Thank You Letter From John Scott
John Scott and his wife, Mary, run the soup kitchen at Candlewood. He shared this letter with the Mahomet Daily after a group of Mahomet residents dropped off presents to fill an immediate Christmas need. The Community Evangelical Free Church dropped off presents for a 5-year old and 1-year old […]
“Silent Night”
We’ve all heard the oxymorons, right? You know, a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms that both make sense, no sense, or nonsense all at the same time. Terms like “active retirement”, “adult children”, “jumbo shrimp”, “fresh frozen”, “authentic replica”, “pretty ugly”, or “a minor catastrophe”. A personal example […]
Commentary: She will participate because she is part of a community
The Mahomet-Seymour band program will prepare for and perform a 24-hour musical on January 6. While I’m still learning the details, students will arrive at Mahomet-Seymour High School at 6 p.m.on January 5, work all night and day preparing their performance, music, and scenery, then present their work to a […]
Kroner Commentary: Will book smart children function in the “real world?”
Don’t misunderstand this commentary. I am all about honoring and applauding deserving individuals for outstanding achievements, whether in the classroom, the workforce or the athletic arena. Often, the chance to earn recognition can in itself be a motivating force. Any opportunity to encourage someone to do well, or perhaps better […]
