The Mahomet Daily provides government, school, fire protection and library news for Mahomet-Seymour readers.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Mahomet Daily will feature each of the four new selections for the Mahomet Education Foundation Hall of Fame in upcoming days. Today’s focus, Karl Welke. By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Some of us – many of us? – have a tendency to look upon athletic events as life […]
By Fred Kroner For the second week in a row, Mahomet-Seymour senior Ava Boyd recorded a lifetime best in a major cross-country meet. Boyd dropped nearly 19 seconds from her previous best on Saturday (Sept. 16), finishing 23rd in a 500-runner field at the Richard Spring Invitational at Detweiller Park, […]
By Fred Kroner Augustus Gaudio was the top finisher for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ cross-country team on Saturday (Sept. 16) in the 62-school Richard Spring Invitational at Detweiller Park, in Peoria. Gaudio ran the 3-mile course in 15 minutes, 34.90 seconds and ended 91st in a field with 570 finishers. As […]
By Fred Kroner Junior Holland Martin and sophomore Adella Bird teamed up for a win at No. 2 doubles for the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ tennis team on Friday (Sept. 15) in an 8-1 dual-meet loss at Mattoon. Martin and Bird, who are 5-0 for the season, were victorious 2-6, 7-6, 11-9. […]
By Fred Kroner Five different players scored goals as the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ soccer team pitched its sixth shutout of the season on Saturday (Sept. 16) in a 5-0 win over Bloomington at Middletown Field. The goals were tallied by Nolan Wheeler, Isaac Warren, Cohen DiFilippo, Ethan Ramirez and Travis Hoffman. […]
By Fred Kroner Talynn O’Donnell was the runner-up on Saturday (Sept. 16) in the 100-yard freestyle, helping Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ swimming team to a seventh-place finish in the 15-school Centennial Invitational in Champaign. O’Donnell’s time was 55.41 seconds. She also placed fourth in the 50-yard freestyle (35.43 seconds). Meet champion Buffalo […]
By Fred Kroner Reis Claybrooke fired a season-best 34 on Thursday (Sept. 14) in a three-school boys’ golf meet at the University of Illinois Course, in Savoy, to spark the undefeated Mahomet-Seymour squad to a team triumph. The Bulldogs had a team composite of 152 and edged runner-up St. Thomas […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Junior quarterback Lucas Dyer hit a career-high for passing yards for the second week in a row as Mahomet-Seymour’s football team went on the road and secured a running clock 31 minutes into the Apollo Conference contest at Charleston. Dyer threw for 318 yards and three […]
By Dani Tietz The Village of Mahomet celebrated Phase I completion of South Mahomet Road this week with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The $8.78 million project included engineering, utility work, and roadway from Sunny Acres Road to Churchill Road. Phase II from Churchill Drive to Prairie View Road began in April […]
By Dani Tietz Just this week, the Mahomet Daily marked a decade of covering the Mahomet and Seymour communities, including the Village of Mahomet and the Mahomet-Seymour School District governments. Sometimes, that amount of time seems like forever. Other times, it seems like only a minute. As a reporter, I’ve […]
