Category: Local

Petitions for candidates interested in filling one of three Mahomet-Seymour School Board seats in the 2021 consolidated election are available. Two seats within the Mahomet Township, currently held by Lori Larson and Max Mcomb,  and one seat from the remaining congressional townships, currently held by Merle Giles, are up for election.  Petitions and the 2021… Read more

Petitions for candidates interested in filling one of four Mahomet Public Library Board of Trustee seats in the 2021 consolidated election are available. Four trustee positions, currently held by Brian Paragi, Kristen Streeter, Carrie Heimann, and Kevin Kelsey are up for election. These positions are four-year terms.  Petitions and the 2021 Candidate’s Guide can be… Read more

Petitions for candidates interested in filling one of four Village of Mahomet Board of Trustee seats in the 2021 consolidated election are available. Three four-year trustee seats, currently held by David Johnson, Andy Harpst and Brian Metzger, and the Village President, currently held by Sean Widener, are up for election. Petitions and the 2021 Candidate’s… Read more

The Village of Mahomet will begin limb and brush collection on Oct. 5. The collection will run until Oct. 9. Materials are to be deposited within three (3) feet of a curb or street edge no later than 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled collection day – Area 1 on Monday, Area 2 on Tuesday, Area… Read more

By Fred Kroner Bulldog junior Gaby Davis tied for first on Thursday (Oct. 1) in a girls’ golf dual meet at Lake of the Woods against Tuscola. Davis and two other competitors fired 53s. Teammate Maddy Clark tied for fifth with a 54. Other Bulldog participants were: Ainsley Winters (55), Kayla McKinney (56), Emma Dallas… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour’s state-ranked boys’ cross-country team outpaced the field on Saturday (Oct. 3) to win a three-school meet in Urbana at the Kickapoo Rail Trail. “Our boys did a great job at Urbana,” M-S coach Neal Garrison said. “It is so hard to get psyched up for a smaller meet, but they were… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Junior Zach Courson carded a career-low 36 on Thursday (Oct. 1) to lead the Bulldogs past Tuscola, 171-199, in a dual meet at Lake of the Woods. Courson won medalist honors and has been the team’s scoring leader in six consecutive meets. Other Bulldog participants were: C.J.  Shoaf (42), Carter Self… Read more

To the editor:Just a year ago, who would have dreamed we’d be fighting for our children’s education. Yet here we are, in a battle for our children’s right to attend in-person school. Imploring for the right to CHOOSE to send our children to more in-person days of attendance while others have the right to CHOOSE… Read more

The Museum of the Grand Prairie announces its fourteenth annual and its first virtual  Lincoln Speaker series. This year speakers will highlight the influential and complicated role of women in the fight for the abolition of slavery as well as their own struggle for the vote. All of the speakers will be broadcast on Facebook… Read more

DuPage County’s 18th Judicial Circuit Court ruled in favor of the defendant, the Illinois High School Association, Thursday, not granting a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO). Three parents in the west Chicago suburbs filed a class-action lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association, citing that it broke its own rules when it changed the sports calendar… Read more