Author: Dani Tietz

The Mahomet Bible Bowl team will begin their competitive season on Oct. 5 at Mahomet Christian Church when teams from all over the state gather to answer questions over Joshua 1-8. Mahomet Christian Church hosts a Bible Bowl competition every Saturday October through May. From May to June, the team competes at the Regional tournaments… Read more

Volunteers with the Upper Sangamon River Conservancy spent Saturday combing a three-mile stretch of the Sangamon River just north of the Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve. The 22 in-water volunteers took 10 canoes and 5 kayaks on the six-hour trip. Three volunteers stayed at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve to cook lunch. Buried… Read more

After a public hearing on Monday, the Mahomet-Seymour School board passed a budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Accountant Hope Wheeler from CliftonLarsonAllen also presented findings on the annual audit of the school district. MAYC President Margaret White presented the Mahomet-Seymour School District with a $33,000 check as the first installment to their $150,000 commitment… Read more

  As Rob Shafer sat in the stands at the Fall Sports Kick-off night, he expected to see his son, Lane, announced as a 2013 MSHS Soccer team player. But he will never forget the moment when his son, Lane was announced as part of the 2013 MSHS Football team. When Lane, a lifelong soccer… Read more

Like many World War II veterans, Donald Rich did not like to talk about his war experiences. Nearly 60 years later, Rich began to tell his stories to longtime friend and current Mahomet resident Kevin Brooks. In the beginning, Brooks did not intend to turn the stories into a book, but after 10 years, he… Read more

To celebrate It’s Our River Day 2013, the Upper Sangamon River Conservancy (USRC) invites the Mahomet community out to the Sangamon River for its second annual Sangamon River Cleanup Day. It’s Our River Day is an initiative from the Lt. Governor Shelia Simon which invites communities and organizations to celebrate Illinois Rivers on the third… Read more

When volunteer assistant coach Kelly Bails saw the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High cross country and track teams uniforms last year, she was shocked. “I thought, you’ve got to be kidding me,” she said. “This is what the kids wear? They’re horrible material, like thick polyester. And the kids run in two hot seasons.” The jerseys, which… Read more

Through a partnership between the Mahomet Area Youth Club (MAYC) and the Mahomet-Seymour School District, after-school enrichment programming is now available at Sangamon and Lincoln Trail Elementary. The first session of Bulldogs Learning and Succeeding Together (B.L.A.S.T.) will begin Sept. 23. Over the last three weeks, Program Coordinator for Enrichment Opportunities Kelly Cramer worked with… Read more

Taking a leap from the security of the corporate world, Justin LaRocque decided to take his almost 10-years of experience in the business IT world to offer technology services to area businesses through his company, Wirebox Solutions. Through enterprise IT work at Busey Bank, LaRocque serviced a network with over 1,000 workstations and 100 servers.… Read more

Enrollment Enrollment numbers in the Mahomet-Seymour School District held steady this year. The data for school enrollment is collected on the sixth day of school. Mahomet-Seymour enrollment for the 2012-2013 school year was 2992. This number is down just two students to 2990 for the 2013-2014 school year. Superintendent Rick Johnston showed the Mahomet-Seymour school… Read more