Does your child want to touch a truck? From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday (June 11), children will be able to climb into, on and around police cars, firetrucks, tractors, snowplows, and other construction vehicles during the Mahomet Parks and Recreation’s Touch a Truck event at Barber Park. This event […]
The Caleb Cook Band will kick off the Mahomet Parks and Recreation’s Summer Concert Series on from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on June 10 at Village Green west of Sangamon. The kick-off event will also food trucks from Ice Daddy’s, Maize, Mama D’s Smokehouse and the Stuft Bird that evening. Visitors […]
Editor’s Note: All letters to the editor are fact-checked before publication. While Phase I does show additional capacity at all grade levels, the question on the referendum only requires the district to build a new junior high and a bus barn, then make upgrades as possible with the $97.9 million. When you […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com It was nearly 49 years ago – in the fall of 1973 – that 20 Mahomet-Seymour teen-agers made history. They were members of the first girls’ softball team to represent the Bulldogs. More than that, they were pioneers in another manner. Softball was the first varsity […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Softball One win on Monday (June 6) translated into two more softball games to play for Mahomet-Seymour. Those games will be at the state tournament, where the Bulldogs will compete for the first time since softball was introduced at M-S in the fall of 1973. […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There are days that are difficult to get through, and they have nothing to do with work or other obligations. They can be days that were once associated with happy memories. For me, that day is June 3. It came around again last week. It was […]
By Isabella Zarate As school comes to an end and summer begins a lot of things change for families and their kids. Some parents are tasked with finding babysitters or sending their kids to daycare, while others stay home and spend more hours with their children. Regardless of the situation, […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahomet.news.com Champaign’s Kyle Davenport overcame a 2-stroke deficit after the first round to post a 4-shot victory on Sunday (June 5) in the two-day Naughtin Open golf tournament at the Lake of the Woods. Davenport carded rounds of 67 and 66 to finish at 133. Sunday’s round […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A case can be made – even in the wake of a loss in the sectional finals – that the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team that stepped on the field at Champaign’s Spalding Park on Saturday (June 4) was the best in school history. The 7-4 loss to […]
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour Softball Mahomet-Seymour’s history-making softball season added a dose of drama in the Friday (June 3) Class 3A sectional championship game at Mount Zion. A program which had never won a game at sectionals until Tuesday, captured its second-ever sectional win in four days against Chatham […]
