Author: Rebecca Hawley

If the mid-winter weather has you longing for a good garage sale, you don’t have to wait around until spring. All God’s Children Preschool’s annual garage sale is this Saturday, January 28, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. The garage sale is the preschool’s only fundraiser. For about 15 years, money from the sale has gone toward purchasing… Read more

A group of high school students wake up one day to find they are the only ones left in their town. It sounds like a dream come true. No nagging teachers. No whiney siblings. No demanding parents. Find out how a group of teenagers in Great Falls, Montana, handle this reality as Mahomet-Seymour High School… Read more

Soccer player Delaney King was asked to keep a short journal on her journey to the Dominican Republic. She asked fellow U13 girls players to help her answer some of the questions. Here is what Delaney and her teammates wrote. Day 1 question: What do you hope this trip will be like? “I hope this… Read more

On the evening of July 4, most residents of Mahomet were spending time with family and friends, watching fireworks, eating hot dogs and celebrating our country’s birth. A group of 30 or more Mahomet residents were also celebrating, but they knew in the next 24 hours, they would no longer be on US soil. At… Read more

Middletown Prairie Elementary school was the site of a press conference Wednesday June 1, where Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner called on Central Illinois residents to urge their lawmakers to work together to pass two non-partisan pieces of legislation that will ensure schools open their doors in the fall and the state’s essential services are funded… Read more

Tom Murdoch’s classroom at Mahomet Seymour Junior High School if full of things most people haven’t seen in a long time. The sixth, seventh and eighth graders he teaches probably have never seen them: An Apple II SE computer that boots off a floppy drive. A tube-type radio. A Royal typewriter. An adding machine that… Read more

3,279 students. That is how many young people Jeanne Campion has touched during her 30 years of teaching. She joked that only a math teacher would quantify the data. But ironically, Mrs. Campion wasn’t counting down the number of days left in the school year. The self-proclaimed “numbers geek” said she didn’t want to count… Read more

There comes a time in a couple’s life when they have to perform the anxiety provoking ritual of having their families meet for the first time. The anxiety is even higher if your future fiancée’s family is ghoulish and tends to relish the dark side of life. See what happens as two families meet at… Read more

In 1966, soldiers were being send to Vietnam to fight in a war while protesters were objecting back home. The Beatles played their last concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, while another ballpark, Busch Memorial Stadium, was opening in St. Louis. And a group of Mahomet area women were working hard to open the first… Read more

The Mahomet Seymour Junior High cafeteria will be transformed in to the streets of New York City and Havana, Cuba this weekend while a cast and crew of students bring the musical Guys and Dolls Junior to life. Guys and Dolls hit the Broadway stage in 1950 and has had several reprisals since. This version… Read more