Author: Dani Tietz

America was everything they had imagined it would be. And while Francesca Morichelli and Emanuele Lo Giudice, foreign exchange students from Italy, arrived back in their homeland this week, both students said they cannot wait to come back. Everything the two had learned about America prior to their eight-month stay came from the internet and… Read more

The Board of Education will hold a special board meeting on Monday, June 4th at 6:15 pm.  The meeting will be held in the Administrative Conference Room. [gview file="https://mahometnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Meeting-Packet-1.pdf%22] Read more

She wanted to leave teaching in the same way that she worked: behind the scenes. After 31 years dedicated to the Mahomet-Seymour School system, 20 as a paid employee and 11 as a classroom volunteer, MSHS Math Instructor Angie Gruner has retired. In 1985, Gruner student taught in the district. “ I fell in love… Read more

Springfield, IL – Interstate 74 from mile post 155 to 160 through Farmer City will be known as the “Trooper Ryan Albin Memorial Highway.” State Sen. Chapin Rose (R-Mahomet) sponsored the legislation (HJR 93). It was adopted by a unanimous vote of the Senate unanimously May 28. Trooper Albin was born in Urbana and attended Blue Ridge H.S.… Read more

Village of Mahomet garage sales will take place Thursday, May 31, Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2.  1503 East Amy Drive in the Sandy Ridge subdivision May 31-June 2, lots of books: Both hardback and paperback in science fiction, history and fiction. Tools and yard tools. Glassware and furniture. 106 Red Bud Ct., June-June 2, 8 a.m. Bake Sale/Lemonade… Read more

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is alerting watercraft owners of changes in the Illinois Boat Registration and Safety Act that take effect on June 1, 2018. The changes push back the expiration date of three-year Illinois watercraft registrations from June 30 to Sept. 30. For example, watercraft owners who renew their three-year registrations that… Read more

  For many children, summer is a no-worry time. There’s plenty to do, plenty of sleep and plenty of food. But there are children, even within Mahomet, who wonder if they will have enough to eat when school is not in session. The Mahomet Summer Lunch program, which has been run annually by 10 community… Read more

Jason Seaman, a 2007 Mahomet-Seymour graduate, was shot three times when he intervened to stop a school shooter at Noblesville West Middle School in Indiana Friday morning. Seaman is a seventh-grade science teacher and a football coach. According to reports, two people, including Seaman and a student were taken to the hospital with injuries from… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Senior Kameryn Brotherton drilled a two-out, two-run double to left-center field in the bottom of the seventh inning on Wednesday, capping a comeback for the Mahomet-Seymour softball team which assured the program of no worse than a .500 season record. Brotherton’s walk-off double accounted for the tying and winning runs in… Read more

Becoming a teacher was always something that interested Judy Pingel. But once she got into the classroom, something changed. “It wasn’t what I thought it would be,” she said. So, Pingel made some changes. She got into banking, working in loans. She got married, had kids, homeschooled them for eight years, then moved from Champaign… Read more