In East Central Illinois, we are on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Chickasaw Nations. Although it has not been recorded that Natives lived on land in Champaign County because of its marshy qualities, the tribes nearby surely hunted […]
By Fred Kroner The sixth-ranked (Class 2A) Mahomet-Seymour boys’ cross-country team finished second to (Class 3A) Palatine on Saturday (Oct. 9) in the 22-school Runnin’ Red Invitational at Black Partridge Park, in Metamora. Palatine had a team composite of 48 points. M-S was next at 105 points. Third-place Oswego East […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s top five runners ran within 58 seconds of each other on Saturday (Oct. 9) in the 20-school Runnin’ Red Invitational at Black Partridge Park, in Metamora. Ava Boyd was the 12th-place runner in a field of 192 competitors. Her time for a 2.94-mile race was 19 […]
By Fred Kroner Junior Caylee Folken, junior Grace Rodebaugh and sophomore Avery Allen were named to the all-tournament team on Saturday (Oct. 9) as Mahomet-Seymour’s volleyball team won the championship at the Quincy Invitational. M-S dispatched Freeburg (25-15, 25-15), West Prairie (25-11, 25-10) and Hannibal, Mo. (25-15, 25-14) in pool […]
By Fred Kroner Junior Eden Oelze was a double winner and senior Olivia McMurry captured a win in one event on Saturday (Oct. 9) helping the Mahomet-Seymour girls’ swimming team to a fourth-place finish in the eight-school Urbana Invitational. Oelze won the 200-yard individual medley (2 minutes, 28.81 seconds) and […]
By Fred Kroner Lincoln made a first-half goal stand up on Saturday (Oct. 9) and shut out the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ soccer team for the second time this season, 1-0, in an Apollo Conference match. M-S is 8-2 in league play, with both losses to the Railsplitters. M-S (13-7-1) concludes the […]
By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour junior Ainsley Winters put together rounds of 76 and 77 to tie for 14th in the girls’ IHSA Class 1A golf tournament at Decatur’s Red Tail Run Golf Course. The two-day event ended on Saturday (Oct. 9). Winters is the first top-15 state finisher in the […]
By Fred Kroner The unbeaten and state-ranked Mahomet-Seymour football team went on the road on Friday (Oct. 8) and made Peoria Richwoods its seventh consecutive victim of the season. M-S jumped into a 41-7 halftime lead en route to a 54-28 non-conference victory. The point total represented a season’s high. […]
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that the ramp from eastbound Interstate 74 to southbound I-57 in Champaign will close Oct. 11. The closure is necessary to build a temporary ramp for eastbound I-74 to southbound I-57 for the duration of the larger interchange construction project and is expected to last about four months. Motorists wanting to exit eastbound I-74 to southbound […]
Five Illinois Republicans introduced a legislative package this week to empower law enforcement. State Senator Chapin Rose, who held a press conference Wednesday said that the measure was to curb recent violent acts in Illinois communities. State Senators John Curran (R-Downers Grove), Jil Tracy (R-Quincy), Steve McClure (R-Springfield), and Brian […]
