Author: Fred Kroner

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Dan and Dayna Perkins’ home-based business is operational. Not so much the business name. Mahomet’s Dan Perkins, the mastermind behind a local pretzel-making venture, originally intended to call it “Ph.D. Pretzels,” as sort of a takeoff for a person who has earned his doctorate. When family members set up a booth… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Obituaries often chronicle a person’s life in great detail, but occasionally reveal little more than to note the individual’s passing. The death notice for 98-year-old Dorotha Russell (who died on May 10, 2018 in Tomball, Texas) fell into the latter category. It started, “Long-time Mahomet resident…” but had no mention about… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Two Mahomet-Seymour basketball coaches didn’t give Eric Loy a chance. A third one did, and that decision helped shape the future course for the 1983 M-S graduate. As a junior high student, Loy tried out for the basketball team. Coaches Don Akers (who later coached a future NBA player, Brian Cardinal,… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The first time Mahomet’s Tim Glumac served a day as page for Republican state Senator Chapin Rose, he wasn’t fully prepared. “We had to borrow a blazer,” said Patti Glumac, his mother. That was when Tim was in fifth grade. He is now finishing up his sophomore year at Mahomet-Seymour and… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s third winning softball season in the past decade came to an end Tuesday night in the semifinals of the Class 3A Mount Zion Sectionals. Apollo Conference foe Charleston handed the Bulldogs a season-ending 14-3 loss in a six-inning game. Charleston (31-4) has set its season record for wins. M-S (16-15)… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com There is more growth on the horizon for Mahomet. The next commercial area to be developed is the southeast corner of Main and Lombard streets. Patrick Wampler announced on Tuesday that his partner, Austin Apgar, signed the paperwork earlier in the day to complete a land purchase from the Phillips family… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com On a steamy, sultry, spring day, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ track and field team made history on Saturday. Since M-S became a Class 2A school 21 years ago, the school had never earned a state trophy in the sport. Since leaving the Class 1A ranks, the Bulldogs had never had an individual state… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s three recent varsity-sport coaching hires all share two common traits. Each has previously been a head coach in the sport they will work with next year, and each is familiar with the returning M-S athletes in their sport. M-S graduate Ryan Bosch will take over the boys’ basketball program, filling… Read more