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Did you know that there are places in Champaign County where a six-foot human could feel small while walking through grass?  That in the winter, when the lush forest floor is asleep, you can see trees that it would take at least five adults to hug? Where the late afternoon light in September will illuminate… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs had two top-10 finishers on Monday (Sept. 28) and placed second in a three-school girls’ cross-country race at Mahomet’s 13 Acres Park. Meet champion Tolono Unity ended with 22 points. Runner-up M-S had 49 points and Monticello wound up third with 53 points. Avah Turner (sixth in 13:18.9) and Madalyn… Read more

By Fred Kroner Mahomet-Seymour outdistanced the field on Monday (Sept. 28) in a three-school boys’ cross-country race at 13 Acres Field. The Bulldogs finished with a team composite of 25 points. Runner-up Unity had 48 points and Monticello ended with 69 points. M-S had seven consecutive placers, starting with Auggie Gaudio, who was third overall… Read more

By Fred Kroner The Bulldogs closed the softball season with back-to-back losses to Mount Zion, the first one to end the regular season and the second one in a Class 3A IESA regional semifinal game. In the Thursday (Sept. 17 game), Mount Zion blanked the Bulldogs 14-0 in Mahomet. Ava Yeakel and Jordan Uebelhoer had… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The Bulldogs won a regional championship on Saturday (Sept. 26) by overpowering Monticello 11-5 in a Class 3A IESA postseason title game in Mahomet. Peyton Cox (5-0) pitched six innings and earned the victory. He allowed six hits, walked two and struck out four. Lucas Dyer worked the seventh inning, yielding… Read more

Trick-or-treating hours in the Village of Mahomet will be from 6-8 p.m. onSaturday, October 31. The use of face coverings, hand sanitizer, and social distancing (at least 6 feet) from others will be required at all times, when outdoors while participating or chaperoning. Trick-or-treating will be challenging amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic this year and… Read more

Groups from Mahomet, St. Joseph and Tolono met in Champaign on Sept. 19 to rally around area police officers. The nearly two-hour event, featuring former Republican Senate candidate Peggy Hubbard, featured a few hundred people on the University of Illinois campus in the late morning hours. “We all know what’s happening in this country right… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com One year ago, this wouldn’t have been a story. It wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows to hear that a group of Lincoln Trail Elementary School students – five boys and six girls – are together in a classroom from Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. That was the… Read more

EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this piece, Dani Tietz, will also be on Sunday’s panel. How does a reader, a viewer, a voter, or a consumer find facts in news today? With terms like “fake news” being used almost daily and increased pressure on social media platforms to monitor misinformation, the conversation about where to… Read more

On the recommendation of Superintendent Lindsey Hall, Mahomet-Seymour schools will remain in their current hybrid learning model until second semester.  The Mahomet-Seymour Education Association, who had surveyed their members, told the Mahomet-Seymour School Board that teachers overwhelmingly did not favor moving away from the plan the district is currently in.  Co-President Megan Jones said that… Read more