Author: Dani Tietz
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Mahomet Honor Parade focuses on giving back
What can the Mahomet Lions club do for the community? It’s one of the first questions they answer when they think about fundraising. Like everything else in 2020, the Mahomet Lions Club was not able to put up their beer tent at the Mahomet Music Festival due to its cancellation. But, they saw the opportunity… Read more
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Museum of the Grand Prairie learning tubs help teachers bring history to life
There are 61 schools in Champaign County with a little more than 25,000 students in grades K-12. But only one educational entity in Champaign County has all those students, their parents, their grandparents and their great-grandparents in mind: the Museum of the Grand Prairie. Each year the Museum hosts exhibits, highlighting the development of land… Read more
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Miss B’s Creations offers homemade cards with reminders of what matters
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, who have formed a relationship… Read more
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Kroner bares his heart in new autobiography
Fred Kroner isn’t done telling stories. After more than 50 years of work at The Champaign-Urbana Morning Courier, The Springfield State-Journal Register, The Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, the Mahomet Citizen and the Mahomet Daily, Kroner has also published five books highlighting everything from the Eastern Illinois Baseball League to Brian Cardinal’s path to… Read more
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A little bit of creativity goes a long way for P&J Glass
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, who have formed a relationship… Read more
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MAYC fills in the gap with care for junior high students
School is back in session. So is fall programming at Mahomet Area Youth Club. But, like everything else in 2020, it looks a little different. The uncertainty of the summer and school year required the MAYC staff to remain flexible in order to fulfill the community’s needs for childcare as the time approached. MAYC served… Read more
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Ayla Finfrock turns passion for animals into a business
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, who have formed a relationship… Read more
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Pettenger and Evans use creativity to start a business
Editor’s Note: Each of the six businesses at the Young and Bright Pop Up Shop will be featured individually throughout the week to give each business its own spotlight. Winderson’s Creation’s Mary Pettenger and greener goods Tara Allen know what it’s like to be a small business owner. The duo, who have formed a relationship… Read more
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Village sends new agreement to M-S district, backs away from junior high for now
According to Village of Mahomet Administrator Patrick Brown, the Village sent a new intergovernmental agreement to the Mahomet-Seymour School District on Wednesday, separating the sale of 13 Acres Park and Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School upon the direction of the Village Board of Trustees Tuesday night. The Mahomet-Seymour School Board also met Monday night in open… Read more
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Parents notified of two positive COVID-19 cases at Middletown Prairie
Middletown Prairie parents received an email Wednesday afternoon that two students at Middletown Prairie Elementary have tested positive for COVID-19 after the first day of school. “We are coordinating our efforts with Champaign-Urbana Public Health District to promptly identify and monitor individuals who have had recent contact with the COVID-19 positive students to prevent further… Read more