Author: Fred Kroner
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Phoenix Botanical, a medical marijuana dispensary, to be included in Mahomet Farmers’ Market
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com When the Mahomet Farmer’s Market opens next week (Friday, June 7), the time and location won’t be all that’s new. Among the dozen or so vendors expected to set up on the west side of Sangamon on Main (the former elementary school building) is Champaign-based Phoenix Botanical. The business, which includes the… Read more
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49 Years Later: Servicemen pen pal results in strong friendship
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com This is a story about an 11-year-old girl corresponding with a 19-year-old man. What it’s not is a creepy tale about two people who meet over the Internet and the horrors that follow. This is a feel-good story that began in the fall of 1969 when the 11-year-old girl was a fifth-grader… Read more
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MSHS Softball season ends with loss to Charleston
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Charleston ended Mahomet-Seymour’s softball season on Saturday with an 11-5 triumph in a Class 3A regional championship game on the Bulldogs’ field. Charleston, 29-4, scored six second-inning runs and never trailed the Bulldogs. Sam Tamburo and Aubrie Shore each collected two hits for M-S. Ashley Wheeler drove in two runs. Shore pitched… Read more
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Hendershot and Powell win State Championships, MSHS Boys’ Track takes third at IHSA State Meet
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Saturday was a day of first for members of the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ track and field team as they competed in the 125th-annual IHSA state meet. Junior Hunter Hendershot won individual Class 2A state championships in two events, the shot put and the discus. His performances broke school records in both events, one… Read more
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MSHS Baseball falls to Charleston in IHSA Regional
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Rick Bohlen had three hits and drove in three runs while teammate Nate McFall had two hits and drove in two runs on Monday as the Bulldogs opened postseason play with a 10-3 Class 3A baseball regional quarterfinal win over visiting Urbana. Grant Harvey also had two RBI for M-S. Jack McHale… Read more
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MSHS Soccer falls to Sacred Heart Griffin, sets sights on next year
BY FRED KRONER Mahomet-Seymour’s first girls’ soccer loss to an in-state school came in Tuesday’s Class 2A sectional semifinals and marked a season-ending setback as well as halting a 15-match winning streak. The Bulldogs dropped a 2-1 decision to Springfield Sacred Heart Griffin in a match played at Rochester High School. The only other M-S… Read more
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MSHS Softball to play in Regional Championship game Saturday
BY FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Karley Yergler pitched two innings of hitless and scoreless relief on Tuesday and earned the win after the Bulldogs scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth to eliminate Effingham from the Mahomet-Seymour Class 3A softball sectional, 8-6. The teams had split their two regular-season meetings. Yergler was summoned in relief… Read more
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Jessica Berkman is far more than the Valedictorian of MSHS
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com There are students who excel academically because they naturally have a solid comprehension of the material. There are others who do well because they put in considerable time to fully learn the subject. And then, there is Jessica Berkman, the valedictorian of Mahomet-Seymour’s 227-member Class of 2019. She has membership in both… Read more
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Morrow became MSHS Salutatorian by challenging himself and others
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com There is a direct correlation between what Nick Morrow did in school and how he did in school. The Mahomet-Seymour Class of 2019 salutatorian took advantage of opportunities that required him to learn outside of the classroom. He was a four-year member of the M-S Scholastic Bowl Team, the Math Team, the… Read more
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Troop 2941: Mission Give-Back
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Abbey Houser is a Girl Scouts troop leader who views her role as supervisor, not decision-maker. “We try to keep scouting girl-led,” Houser said. “Wherever they want to take it, our job as leaders is to make things available.” Houser said the leaders plant one seed in the minds of the young… Read more