By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Explanation is not the same as justification. Sometimes they can be polar opposites and have no relationship or relevance to each other. Consider the story of a young man who was raised in a small – but growing – midwestern community. He lived in the same house […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The unbeaten Bulldogs (14-0) maintained their state ranking (21st in Class 2A) in the weekly poll released on Tuesday by The Illinois Best Weekly. M-S returns to action tonight at Effingham and then will return home on Saturday to host the Marty Williams Invitational, which will start […]
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Mount Zion put a halt to Mahomet-Seymour’s four-game winning streak in girls’ basketball on Monday, posting a 53-40 victory over the Bulldogs in their own gym. Durbin Thomas scored a team-high 11 points and made a career-high three three-pointers. Other top point-makers for the Bulldogs were Savannah […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Senior Grant Coleman registered a school-record performance on Tuesday at Mattoon. The 6-foot-7 Coleman shattered a 48-year-old school scoring record by notching 44 points in 24 minutes against the Green Wave. M-S hammered Mattoon 73-37. Coleman was 16 of 24 from the field, including 5 for 7 […]
The Mahomet Stingers, a baseball program for junior high-aged boys, will hold informational gathering at Baldwin Bytes, located at 601 E Main St #110, Mahomet on Feb. 10 from 7 to 8 p.m. and Feb. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Details about registration will be provided at the […]
The 2020 Mahomet Garage sales have been scheduled for May 15 and 16 and Sept. 11 and 12. The Mahomet Daily will provide an online and print listing for shoppers.
A three-day weekend in Illinois during the month of January means that governments, many schools and the postal service stops to remember the life of Martin Luther King. Jr. While many libraries and museums throughout the state are also closed, those in East Central Illinois that do stay open oftentimes […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Cleaning closets, garages, under beds and in dressers, discarding what is no longer needed or that which has never been used is the beginning of many New Year rituals. Some people set their sights on town-wide garage sale dates while others just pack up the car and […]
The following Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Students were recognized for their academic achievements in the 2nd Quarter of 2019.
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com In the battle for first place in the Apollo Conference on Friday, visiting Lincoln dealt Mahomet-Seymour its worst loss of the boys’ basketball season, 70-51. “We got down early and were not able to recover,” M-S head coach Ryan Bosch said. “I thought we could handle […]
