By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs opened their 2022 wrestling season on Saturday (Jan. 8), finishing fourth in the 13-school Bloomington Invitational. First-place Homer had 302 ½ points. The Bulldogs ended with 203 points. Four M-S competitors advanced into championship matches in their weight classes. The school had two champions. At […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s eighth-grade boys’ basketball team started the 2022 portion of its schedule on Tuesday (Jan. 4) with a 35-27 win at Bloomington. Landyn Hannah notched a team-high 15 points. He hit eight of his points in the third quarter as the Bulldogs turned a 19-17 halftime deficit […]
The Mahomet-Seymour Dance team placed first at the Mahomet-Seymour Dance Team Invitational Saturday. This is the team’s fourth first place win this season. The Bulldogs travel to Clinton on January 15.
By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs hit just 5 of 24 three-point attempts at home on Friday (Jan. 7) and suffered an Apollo Conference loss to Lincoln, 47-33. M-S attempted just 13 non-three-pointers in the game. Wyatt Bohm led the Bulldogs with 10 points and nine rebounds. Blake Wolters and Dayten […]
By Fred Kroner Bulldogs Caden Hatton and Mateo Casillas won their weight classes on Saturday (Jan. 8) in the Sycamore Wrestling Invitational. Hatton was 3-0 at 106 pounds, including a 4-2 triumph in the championship match over Kaneland’s Cameron Phillips. Casillas was 4-0 at 195 pounds. He also captured a […]
Parents of children enrolled in the Mahomet-Seymour School District received an email Sunday morning updating the district’s COVID-19 isolation and exclusion period for students and staff. The update comes ahead of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education adopting CDC guidance that reduced the […]
The Mahomet Town and Country Women’s Club has canceled their February 18th club meeting due to the increase in COVID cases locally. They plan to resume regularly scheduled meetings on March 15 at 7:00 PM at the Mahomet Public library. The guest speaker will be Cheryl Mitchel speaking on “Bloom”. […]
Mahomet-Seymour’s Mateo Casillas improved his record to 26-1 as he earned the title of champion at 195-lb in the 60th Red Schmitt Wrestling Tournament at Granite City. Casillas pinned his first three opponents, then earned a pair of major decisions before holding his opponents scoreless in the semifinals and finals. […]
By Isabella Zarate After 25 years Sandy Osborne decided it was time to retire. Osborne had been with the Champaign County Museum of the Grand Prarie for nearly three decades. In that time, she remained in a part-time position as the Museum’s Education Program Specialist. In this role, Osborne worked […]
The University of Illinois is now requiring students, staff, and faculty to get a COVID-19 boost shot when they are eligible. University of Illinois President Tim Killeen wrote, “There is now significant evidence that vaccinations plus boosters are effective at preventing infections from developing into serious illness,” in a Mass […]
