Author: Dani Tietz

Mahomet families seeking information about a home-centered education movement called Classical Conversations will have their opportunity to learn more about the organization during an informational presentation on March 27 and April 10 at 7 p.m. at Grace Church. Classical Conversations was developed in 1997 by Leigh Bortins. Bortins, who homeschooled her four sons after leaving… Read more

Electronics Recycling Collection Event will take place May 19, with online registration opening April 9 at 8 a.m. When the registration opens on April 9th, you will be able to select one of the available 15-minute time slots between 8am-12pm. Please make sure you register completely; you will receive a confirmation email and/or text after you register. You will then receive a postcard in… Read more

It’s not unusual for Mahomet-Seymour students to leave the area with their families for spring break. But students in the Mahomet-Seymour High School Jazz band feel lucky as they spent five days over spring break with their best friends. The MSHS Jazz Band “East Coast Tour,” as Band Director Michael Stevens affectionately refers to the… Read more

She’s colorful. With all three children enrolled in school for the 2018-2019 school year, Sarah Windingland had her first brush with free time in 16 years, and she began to show her colors. Hailing from an artistic family, with a grandmother who taught art to people in prison, Windingland decided to try her hand at… Read more

The Mahomet-Seymour School board voted unanimously to hire Nathan Mills as the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Principal on March 12. Mills has been employed with the Mahomet-Seymour Schools since 2003, when he started as a vocational/career education teacher at Mahomet-Seymour High School.   In 2011, he became an assistant principal at MSHS, a position he has held since that… Read more

I didn’t build many puzzles as a child. But when my grandmother visited Indiana from North Carolina once a year, or when she’d take us on a trip, she’d pour a puzzle on the table. We’d pick at it like snacks during the Super Bowl, when we weren’t dancing or swimming. It was under her… Read more

With the wind blowing across the Mahomet-Seymour football field, it was difficult to hear high school students say, “enough” from the bleachers. But the presence of nearly 230 students — roughly a quarter of the M-S High School student population, — on the field at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 sent a simultaneous 17-minute message of… Read more

This article is the fifth in a six-part series that addresses concerns five (The fifth student left halfway through the interview. This interview includes four students.) Mahomet-Seymour High Schoool students have about their environment at school. During an interview about school safety, these students discussed a multitude of issues that, they believe, lead to an… Read more

The celebration of a school year’s worth of art will look a little different this year. Celebrate Art, an annual event that has given Mahomet-Seymour art students a chance to showcase their work annually, is in a transition year. The nearly 20-year-old tradition began as a fundraiser for the Mahomet-Seymour Education Foundation in 1999. But… Read more