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M-S girls’ swimming competes to raise money for CU at Home
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour girls’ swimming won two events and placed among the top four in 15 of 16 relay races on Saturday at the CUHOMES event, which raised $815 for C-U at Home. Central was the meet champion (284 points), followed by Urbana Uni High (272), M-S (222), Urbana (164) and St. Thomas… Read more
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M-S girls’ cross country places third at Saber Corn Classic
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour girls’ cross-country M-S placed third in the 14-school Saber Corn Classic on Saturday at St. Thomas More. Two Bulldogs finished among the top 10 individually. Elizabeth Sims was fifth, running the 3-mile course in 18 minutes, 41.9 seconds. She was 40 seconds behind the winner. Teammate Klein Powell was eighth… Read more
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M-S football drops home-opener to Marion
BY FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Jon Adkins Coaching Era at Mahomet-Seymour started with a 34-13 loss on Friday to Marion on the Bulldogs’ Frank Dutton Field. Marion built a 20-0 lead before M-S scored twice in a span of 3 minutes, 49 seconds in the third quarter. A first-game loss is the way the season… Read more
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M-S Soccer claims Bulldog Invitational title
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ soccer team, which had only scored on penalty kicks in its first two matches, had four players find the back of the net on Saturday as the Bulldogs won the championship in their own four-team invitational at Middletown Field. M-S (2-1-1) opened the tournament with a 4-1 conquest of… Read more
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Mahomet-Seymour to open Session I B.L.A.S.T. registration
Registration for the Mahomet-Seymour School District’s B.L.A.S.T. program will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 6 p.m. for first and second-grade classes at Middletown Prairie Elementary and 7 p.m. for third through fifth-grade classes Lincoln Trail Elementary. B.L.A.S.T. programming is an after-school enrichment program that features classes in art, literature, engineering, sports, scrapbooking, yoga, crochet,… Read more
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Looking back and stepping forward in wake of PTO discovery
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com Things were looking up going into the fundraising season for Mahomet-Seymour’s Parent Teacher Organization. But Friday’s discovery that Ken Keefe’s, a five-year M-S PTO board member and Corresponding Executive, was the owner of Fund For Us, LLC, a company that handled credit card and Paypal donations for the Dawg Walk fundraiser,… Read more
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YouTube stars Random Encounters to be at Mahomet Public Library Friday
Kid-friendly YouTube stars Random Encounters will be at the Mahomet Public Library on August 30 from 7 to 8 p.m. Since 2010, AJ Pinkerton and Peter Srinivasanhave have posted YouTube video game music videos and gained popularity through songs like: FNAF the Musical, Resident Enis, Sanpai Notice Me (Yandere) and their Pokemon songs. Their Sonic… Read more
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Mackenzie’s view: Learning from Fair Queen Speeches
BY MACKENZIE BONHAM Well hello everybody! I am Mackenzie Bonham. I am nine-years old, in the fourth grade. I am so excited to start this new adventure with each and every one of you. Ms. Dani asked me if I would like to write you all every month and let you know what I have… Read more
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Letter to the Editor: Checks and Balances
BY JULIE CEBULSKI While working on a team of directors in an assisted living facility, our team was shocked to learn that a staff member from a sister facility was arrested for embezzlement. We were shocked and saddened that someone we knew and respected had committed a crime. My administrator noted that she had witnessed… Read more
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Keefe profited from Dawg Walk donations, M-S PTO asks for his resignation
BY DANI TIETZ dani@mahometnews.com The M-S PTO announced Monday morning that it has asked its Corresponding Executive Ken Keefe to resign his post after the group learned on Aug. 23 that he was the owner of Fund for Us LLC., the organization that handled online donations during the 2018-19 school year for its annual fundraiser,… Read more