Author: Dani Tietz

The Champaign County Forest Preserve District was recently awarded $726,900 in grant funding by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Museum Capital Grant Program to support the construction of an improved Discovery Garden, replacement greenhouse, and program facility at the Museum of the Grand Prairie, located in the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve.  According… Read more

There’s always more than one way to get from Point A to Point B.  But most people, no matter what their circumstances, never stop to ponder the options. They just go.  This is how nine-and-a-half-year-old Makenna Barnes operates.  “She’s a very active kid,” her mom Meredith Barnes said. Makenna swims “like a dolphin,” likes to… Read more

Quaint. It’s a word used by every realtor throughout the Midwest. Every Chamber of Commerce member uses this word to describe their downtown. It’s a word used to describe the unique, the small, the revived, the picturesque.  These are the places where people listen to bird songs instead of trains passing. Where you’re sure to… Read more

IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike is leaving the agency after three years of service.  Her last day in that role will be March 14. “With all her being, she has dedicated each day — and I mean EVERY day — to the agency’s mission to protect the health and wellness of the people in Illinois.… Read more

The Village of Mahomet approved an altered development plan with Unlimited Holdings LLC for the remainder of Harvest Edge on Feb. 22.  The 18.9 acres of the 42.25 acres property located along 425E and South Mahomet Road was rezoned to R1c from R-1b. Unlimited Holdings requested the change in zoning “to provide a transitional residential… Read more

The Mahomet-Seymour Color Guard won the 2022 IDTA State Champion Winter Guard Championship last Saturday. They also took 2nd Place with their Lyrical Flag routine. This is the third consecutive year that the Bulldogs have finished on top of their class. Mahomet-Seymour Winter Guard kicked off the 2022 season, taking first place in the Winter… Read more

Cast members of the upcoming Mahomet-Seymour High School production of Fiddler on the Roof will be among the first to tell you that they don’t know much about the Jewish people who lived in the town of Anatevka in czarist Russia in 1905.  Director Chris Taber knew this would most likely be the case, especially… Read more

The Illinois 4th District Court of Appeals has upheld the temporary restraining order on masks and vaccine mandates handed down by Sangamon County Judge Raylene Grischow. The court called the appeal request “moot” after a JCAR, a 12-member committee divided evenly between the House and Senate, and between Democrats and Republicans, suspended the requirement’s renewal… Read more

The Mahomet Area Youth Club is taking their “hats off” to the Mahomet community. “We are celebrating YOU, the Mahomet Community,” Executive Director Sara Balgoyen said.   This year’s annual fundraiser, “Hats Off to our Community Supporters” give a nod to contributors who make it possible for the youth organization to serve children on a day-to-day… Read more