Author: Dani Tietz

Classic Plumbing will bring a family-fun event to Grace Church on Feb. 25. In an effort to give back to the community, Classic Plumbing will provide carnival games, bounce houses, grilled hot dogs, and prizes from 6 to 8 p.m. Read more

How do you serve a community? It’s a question the Mahomet Public Library considered as they revamped their strategic plan, which was approved for 2022-2025 Monday night.  Building on a foundation that was laid in 2018, the library’s board of trustees has its sights set on providing spaces where all can learn, connect, create and… Read more

The Mahomet-Seymour School Board voted 5-1 to move to masks recommended; Discussion: Hennesy brought up an IDPH guideline (Jan. 11) that says anyone who “test(s) positive for COVID-19 (exclusion), Everyone, regardless of vaccination status, must do the following: • Stay home for a minimum of five days and a maximum of 10 days after the… Read more

Mahomet-Seymour Junior High’s eighth-grade basketball team defeated Mount Zion 51-49 Wednesday to capture the IESA Class 4A Sectional Championship.  Landyn Hannah scored 15 points in the fourth quarter, pulling the Bulldogs to a win in the last minute of regulation. Hannah accumulated 30 points total. With an 18-6 record, Mahomet-Seymour will meet up with the… Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker announced Wednesday that the state of Illinois plans to lift the statewide indoor mask requirement on Monday, February 28, 2022, but still intends to continue masking requirements in P-12 schools subject to pending litigation which impacts a number of schools.  Mask requirements will continue where they are federally mandated, such as on… Read more

The 5 Essentials Survey is now open to students, teachers and parents through March 11. Administered by a third party, the UChicago Impact at the University of Chicago, the 5 Essentials Survey was implemented by ISBE more than eight years ago as a tool to gain confidential feedback about the climate and culture of a… Read more

The St. Jude Monticello-to-Peoria Run is looking for runners with a heart for St. Jude. Founded in 2012, this year the team celebrates its 10th year running for the kids of St. Jude. The team also celebrates another special milestone this year; they will break the $500,000 mark in their cumulative fundraising. Founded by Tricia… Read more

Students in the Mahomet-Seymour School District had the option of wearing a mask—or not—as they came to school Monday morning.  The change came on the back of a temporary restraining order granted Friday by Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge Raylene Grischow in response to a lawsuit brought to the court by a group of 700… Read more

Junior Quenton Rogers has stepped up for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team during the second half of the season. At the turn of the New Year, Rogers scored a season-high 20-points and grabbed five rebounds in a win over Rantoul. Since then the 6’3” junior has left his mark in the boxscore, gathering 10 points… Read more

Every human needs a place to belong.  And yet, throughout all of time, groups of people have been separated from the whole, been made to feel as though they are less than, and even, many times, intimidated to be who they were born to be.  The Mahomet-Seymour community felt a glimpse of this in September… Read more