Lincoln Trail and Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School are under a soft-lockdown as Mahomet Police Department investigates a domestic issue nearby. Parents received the following message via Skyward a few moments ago. “At this time, 12:52 p.m., both Lincoln Trail and Mahomet-Seymour Jr. High are going on a soft lock down. […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com The message is getting through loud and clear. Brianna Suits and her peers at St. Joseph-Ogden are talking about it. So are Mahomet-Seymour teen-agers Addi Jones and Avery Seaman. Scott’s Law is one they carry in their minds as they operate vehicles. Suits learned about it in […]
“How was your day?” It’s a common question among family members at the end of a work or school day. But that simple greeting means so much more for Middletown Elementary second-grade teacher Gay Fritz and her daughter Allison Fritz, who is in her first year of teaching science at […]
The Arthur Lovington Atwood Hammond CUSD #305 Board of Education is pleased to announce the hiring of Mr. Shannon Cheek as the next superintendent of schools starting July 1, 2019 to succeed Mr. Kenny Schwengel, who is retiring at the end of the school year. After completing a nationwide […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com It took more than a decade, but Pat Brumfield’s tenure as a bus driver finally exceeded her time as a bus rider. In all, the Mahomet-Seymour graduate has spent 30 years on the big, yellow school busses. Raised in rural Mahomet with her siblings, the former Pat […]
Roadshow is a term many junior high students have never heard of. DM (which stands for direct message) is an acronym that many adults have to turn to a search engine to understand. But when multiple generations turn to the internet, there is one common understanding: there are dangers out […]
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com It all started with the wind sweeping down the plain. And, for Mahomet-Seymour High School seniors Chris and Clay Bartlett, it will end with the epic story of a man who fought for his sister, his life and his country. But there are more stories to be […]
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com When the school year ends, approximately 255 students — and Dianna McClughen — will be leaving Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School. The students will be promoted to high school after three years in the building. McClughen has spent 33 years at M-S junior high. Her next assignment won’t […]
Signs were already coming out of yards early on Wednesday, April 3, the day after the 2019 consolidated election. Unofficial vote totals show Jeremy Henrichs, an out-of-township candidate who has been on the Mahomet-Seymour School Board since the summer of 2018, in the lead in overall votes with 1,064 votes. […]
James Manrique runs the nonpartisan Champaign County Voter’s Alliance group, which works to inform voters and turn them out to vote. The group hosts a popular nonpartisan online voter guide that can be found at VoteChampaign.Org. Manrique records statistics for how his site is used. He says the biggest attraction […]
