By Fred Kroner With the top four runners all achieving personal-bests for a 3-mile course, Mahomet-Seymour’s girls’ cross-country squad placed 13th on Saturday (Oct. 5) in the 33-school Peoria Invitational at Detweiller Park, in Peoria. Emily Anand was the Bulldogs’ top placer, finishing in 18 minutes, 32.90 seconds. She cut […]
By Fred Kroner For the first time in program history, the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ tennis team won the six-school Apollo Conference Tournament on Saturday (Oct. 5) at Charleston. In doubles, M-S won two of the three flights. Elena Religioso and Haley Reed won both of their matches in straight sets, losing […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ soccer team kept its Apollo Conference record unblemished with a 5-1 win at home over Charleston on Thursday (Oct. 3). The Bulldogs are 5-0 in conference action. Hayden Litteken, who played the first 10 minutes in goal and kept the Trojans off the board, registered […]
By Fred Kroner Erin Dallas distributed 13 assists on Thursday (Oct. 3) as the Mahomet-Seymour volleyball team swept to a 25-20, 25-18 Apollo Conference victory at Mattoon. Ellie Barker landed seven kills and one service ace. The Bulldogs’ junior varsity team registered a 25-18, 25-21 win. The M-S freshmen were […]
By Fred Kroner Senior Reis Claybrooke won medalist honors – in a playoff – on Thursday (Oct. 3) in the IHSA Class 2A boys’ golf regional tournament at Turtle Run, in Danville. Claybrook fired a 76. Teammate Kelton Hennesy carded a 77 and tied for third place. The Bulldogs placed […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Football Mahomet-Seymour’s 38-14 football win on Friday night (Oct. 4) at Mount Zion was a case of the offense helping the defense and the special teams helping both units. The offense scored the game’s first 31 points and the defense kept the home team off […]
Mahomet-Seymour School District constituents may be stuck between a rock and a hard place. While it’s clear that every school is struggling with space limitations, projections show that the proposed new facilities from the 2024 $112.8 million referendum will be at capacity within 10 years. By 2045, one year after […]
*This article has been updated to reflect a mathmatical mistake in the Oct. 4 article. We apologize for any inconvience. We have recalcuated projections here. These projections still show that enrollment increases will outpace the district’s predictions. Here are the top points of the article: Enrollment trends in the Mahomet-Seymour […]
Here are the top points from the article: Capacity concerns within the Mahomet-Seymour School District have been on the table since 2014, when the Board of Education and then-Superintendent Rick Johnston approved a plan to adjust class sizes based on the district’s financial standing, which at the time were subpar. […]
Here are the top points from the article: For many families in the Mahomet-Seymour School District, the proposed $112.8 million referendum feels like a manageable cost when broken down into smaller increments—$22 a month for every $100,000 in home market value. But as residents begin to calculate the true impact, […]
