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By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour sophomore Hunter Hendershot won the shot put in the Class 2A division of the Illinois Top Times high school indoor state championships on Saturday at Illinois Wesleyan  University. Hendershot’s winning toss was 56 feet, 5 inches. The runner-up, Dunlap’s Austin Klokkenga, had a best toss of 53-9 3/4. The M-S… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour’s baseball and girls’ soccer squads continued their unbeaten starts to the season with wins earlier this week. Baseball The Bulldogs (3-0) overcame a five-run deficit to post a 15-5 win on Wednesday at Clinton. M-S scored six runs in the third inning, the go-ahead tally scoring on an RBI by… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Once upon a time, in a community of less than 1,400 residents, a boys’ basketball team won every game it played one season and captured a state championship. It didn’t happen in the mind of an over-exuberant dreamer. It happened in Mahomet, Ill., nearly 60 years ago. The special season occurred… Read more

She’s colorful. With all three children enrolled in school for the 2018-2019 school year, Sarah Windingland had her first brush with free time in 16 years, and she began to show her colors. Hailing from an artistic family, with a grandmother who taught art to people in prison, Windingland decided to try her hand at… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Big things can come from small areas. There is no greater proof than Precision Shooting Equipment, which is now — and for decades has been — the world’s largest manufacturer of compound bows, target bows, crossbows and traditional recurve bows. The company got its start on Mahomet’s Main Street in 1970.… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Four Mahomet-Seymour athletes won individual events on Saturday as the Bulldogs captured team honors in the 30-school Eastern Illinois University Indoor Track and Field Invitational, in Charleston. M-S totaled 61 points. Runner-up Unity had 59 points. The Bulldogs’ best event was the 1,600 meters. Teammates Mathias Powell (4 minutes, 25.76 seconds)… Read more

The Mahomet-Seymour School board voted unanimously to hire Nathan Mills as the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High Principal on March 12. Mills has been employed with the Mahomet-Seymour Schools since 2003, when he started as a vocational/career education teacher at Mahomet-Seymour High School.   In 2011, he became an assistant principal at MSHS, a position he has held since that… Read more

I didn’t build many puzzles as a child. But when my grandmother visited Indiana from North Carolina once a year, or when she’d take us on a trip, she’d pour a puzzle on the table. We’d pick at it like snacks during the Super Bowl, when we weren’t dancing or swimming. It was under her… Read more

With the wind blowing across the Mahomet-Seymour football field, it was difficult to hear high school students say, “enough” from the bleachers. But the presence of nearly 230 students — roughly a quarter of the M-S High School student population, — on the field at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 sent a simultaneous 17-minute message of… Read more

Photos and Article by Emily Janauski The Mahomet Daily and Mahomet Citizen share articles on a weekly basis. Building a sense of community, developing relationships and gaining confidence, the Mahomet-Seymour Junior High School’s Community Action Program and the high school’s Interact Club provide unmatched volunteer service projects for students. “It’s fun to know you’re making… Read more