Kortny and Jeremiah Cox welcomed their 18-month old son with his adoptive father’s playful personality home from Ethiopia at the end of June. After a two year wait, the adoption process was complete, and their family finally felt intact. The couple made two trips to Ethiopia without their four-year-old daughter, […]
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Central Illinois Athletic Academy provides indoor practice facility
Central Illinois Athletic Academy opened its doors Sunday to provide the Mahomet community, and surrounding areas, with an indoor practice facility. Scotty Harvey, alongside business partners Jim and Kim Long transformed the north side of the old D&D Foods building at 201 N. Prairieview Rd. over the summer months with […]
Sportsmen’s Club of Urbana to open shooting range
After three years of building and planning, the Sportsmen’s Club of Urbana will open their shotgun and pistol target-only shooting range on Oct. 2. The shooting range will be open from 9 a.m. to one hour before sundown as long as the weather is decent. The Club continues their no […]
Local runner looks to reach ultra-marathon goal
With 87 ultra-marathons under his belt since 2000, Mahomet resident Chris Migotsky hopes complete 100 ultra-marathons by the end of 2014. Migotsky completed his 87th race at the 32-mile Evergreen Lake Ultra Marathon in 6 hours, 14 minutes. In April, Migotsky ran 100-miles in his best time at 23 hours, […]
Mahomet Bible Bowl hopes to build on success
The Mahomet Bible Bowl team will begin their competitive season on Oct. 5 at Mahomet Christian Church when teams from all over the state gather to answer questions over Joshua 1-8. Mahomet Christian Church hosts a Bible Bowl competition every Saturday October through May. From May to June, the team […]
USRC finds TVs, microwave and car in Sangamon
Volunteers with the Upper Sangamon River Conservancy spent Saturday combing a three-mile stretch of the Sangamon River just north of the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. The 22 in-water volunteers took 10 canoes and 5 kayaks on the six-hour trip. Three volunteers stayed at Lake of the Woods Forest […]
School Board passes budget, MAYC enrichment a reality
After a public hearing on Monday, the Mahomet-Seymour School board passed a budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Accountant Hope Wheeler from CliftonLarsonAllen also presented findings on the annual audit of the school district. MAYC President Margaret White presented the Mahomet-Seymour School District with a $33,000 check as the first […]
Dad finds out his son plays football at Fall Kick-off Event
As Rob Shafer sat in the stands at the Fall Sports Kick-off night, he expected to see his son, Lane, announced as a 2013 MSHS Soccer team player. But he will never forget the moment when his son, Lane was announced as part of the 2013 MSHS Football team. […]
Local author brings WWII to life through first person account
Like many World War II veterans, Donald Rich did not like to talk about his war experiences. Nearly 60 years later, Rich began to tell his stories to longtime friend and current Mahomet resident Kevin Brooks. In the beginning, Brooks did not intend to turn the stories into a book, […]
Community invited to Sangamon River Clean Up Day Saturday
To celebrate It’s Our River Day 2013, the Upper Sangamon River Conservancy (USRC) invites the Mahomet community out to the Sangamon River for its second annual Sangamon River Cleanup Day. It’s Our River Day is an initiative from the Lt. Governor Shelia Simon which invites communities and organizations to celebrate […]
