By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour sophomore Hunter Hendershot won the shot put in the Class 2A division of the Illinois Top Times high school indoor state championships on Saturday at Illinois Wesleyan University. Hendershot’s winning toss was 56 feet, 5 inches. The runner-up, Dunlap’s Austin Klokkenga, had a best toss […]
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An Open Letter to the Mahomet – Seymour Board of Education: Support for Courtney Porter
Board Members, It has come to my attention that Courtney Porter will be reassigned to a classroom. Why is such a great leader and mentor being moved to a position in which she can only influence and bless one class? What a loss to the other children in the district. […]
MSHS Baseball and Soccer remain undefeated
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball and girls’ soccer squads continued their unbeaten starts to the season with wins earlier this week. Baseball The Bulldogs (3-0) overcame a five-run deficit to post a 15-5 win on Wednesday at Clinton. M-S scored six runs in the third inning, the go-ahead tally […]
Throwback Thursday: Kroner looks at 1959 State Championship team
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Once upon a time, in a community of less than 1,400 residents, a boys’ basketball team won every game it played one season and captured a state championship. It didn’t happen in the mind of an over-exuberant dreamer. It happened in Mahomet, Ill., nearly 60 years […]
Windingland shares love of color with Mahomet community
She’s colorful. With all three children enrolled in school for the 2018-2019 school year, Sarah Windingland had her first brush with free time in 16 years, and she began to show her colors. Hailing from an artistic family, with a grandmother who taught art to people in prison, Windingland decided […]
World’s largest bow manufacturer found start in Mahomet
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Big things can come from small areas. There is no greater proof than Precision Shooting Equipment, which is now — and for decades has been — the world’s largest manufacturer of compound bows, target bows, crossbows and traditional recurve bows. The company got its start on […]
MSHS Track and Soccer find success over weekend
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Four Mahomet-Seymour athletes won individual events on Saturday as the Bulldogs captured team honors in the 30-school Eastern Illinois University Indoor Track and Field Invitational, in Charleston. M-S totaled 61 points. Runner-up Unity had 59 points. The Bulldogs’ best event was the 1,600 meters. Teammates Mathias […]
Mills to become principal of Mahomet-Seymour Junior High
The Mahomet-Seymour School board voted unanimously to hire Nathan Mills as the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Principal on March 12. Mills has been employed with the Mahomet-Seymour Schools since 2003, when he started as a vocational/career education teacher at Mahomet-Seymour High School. In 2011, he became an assistant principal at MSHS, a position […]
A Look Inside Mahomet-Seymour: The Corner Pieces (Commentary)
I didn’t build many puzzles as a child. But when my grandmother visited Indiana from North Carolina once a year, or when she’d take us on a trip, she’d pour a puzzle on the table. We’d pick at it like snacks during the Super Bowl, when we weren’t dancing or […]
Nearly 230 Mahomet-Seymour High School students participate in March 14 walkout
With the wind blowing across the Mahomet-Seymour football field, it was difficult to hear high school students say, “enough” from the bleachers. But the presence of nearly 230 students — roughly a quarter of the M-S High School student population, — on the field at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 sent […]
