The Champaign County Forest Preserve District was recently awarded $726,900 in grant funding by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Museum Capital Grant Program to support the construction of an improved Discovery Garden, replacement greenhouse, and program facility at the Museum of the Grand Prairie, located in the Lake of […]
By Fred Kroner Two Mahomet-Seymour seniors earned all-conference recognition by the coaches in the Apollo Conference. Cayla Koerner was voted onto the five-player first team. Ivie Juarez was selected to the five-player second team. Koerner tallied a team-high 523 points for the season, which ended with M-S capturing a school-record […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s Blake Wolters was the only junior selected to the Apollo Conference all-league first team. The first team consisted of five members. Wolters led the 17-15 Bulldogs in points, rebounds, assists and steals in four separate games. He was also the team’s season leader in those four […]
By FRED KRONER Buoyed by wins from the 3,200-meter relay and triple-jumper Cole Marshall, the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ track and field team emerged victorious on Saturday (March 12) in the Apollo Conference Indoor Invitational. M-S scored 89 ½ points to edge runner-up Lincoln (86) and third-place Williamsville (79). Eleven schools participated. […]
The Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Eighth-grade Volleyball team won the Class 4A IESA Regional earlier this week. The top-seeded Bulldogs defeated Champaign Central 25-4, 25-14 before capturing the title against Urbana in two sets (25-14, 25-16). Mahomet-Seymour will face Taylorville at Rochester in Sectional play on Monday.
URBANA, IL (March 7, 2022) – The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) will sponsor a One-DayHousehold Hazardous Waste Collection on Saturday, April 9, 2022, at the State Farm Center, SE QuadParking Lot, in Champaign. The collection event is open to all Illinois residents; however, residents mustregister in advance for an […]
By Fred Kroner By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com As Jolene Erlacher lives her daily life, she is also acutely aware of the future. A person who is equal parts wife, mother to twin daughters, teacher, author, consultant and lecturer, Erlacher is concerned about the future, especially for those who fall into […]
By Fred Kroner Three Mahomet-Seymour eighth-graders and three seventh-graders qualified for the IESA Class 2A wrestling state tournament based on their performances on Saturday (March 5) at the Jacksonville Sectional. The lone M-S sectional champion was seventh-grader Gideon Hayter (75 pounds). Other seventh-graders who advanced to state are Beau Back […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade volleyball team opened postseason play at home on Tuesday (March 8) by overpowering Champaign Jefferson, 25-4, 25-14, in a Class 4A IESA regional semifinal match. The top-seeded Bulldogs (16-5) will play seventh-seeded Urbana in the regional championship match on Thursday (March 9) at 4:30 p.m. […]
By Isabella Zarate If you have ever visited the Mahomet Public Library, you are likely to have run into Tammy Caputo. Caputo has been with the library for a total of 17 years, though her time has been broken up into two shifts. In the 90s, Caputo joined the team […]
