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By: Emily Jankauski Photo: The Village of Mahomet has certainly seen its fair share of snow this winter. Main Street was covered in a blanket of white during one to three inches of snowfall received on Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. The Mahomet Daily and Mahomet Citizen share one article every week.    Knee-deep in winter,… Read more

It doesn’t get much more exciting than this for elementary students who are interested in science: Who can build the farthest rolling four-wheeled vehicle out of an assortment of ‘junk’ materials? Who can build the best paper airplane? Who can communicate how to build a structure that only the describer can see? Who can solve… Read more

*The student referred to in this article is a Mahomet-Seymour High School student. His/her name has been changed to protect his/her identity. Teenagers smoking in the bathrooms of their high schools may seem like a problem educators and parents had to deal with decades ago. But with new nicotine delivery systems, such as e-cigs or… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Barb Oehlschlaeger-Garvey was interested in artifacts at a young age. “When I was 5, my brother (Fritz) was 11 and we got out card tables and put random stuff on them,” Oehlschlaeger-Garvey said. “We charged our grandparents a penny or a nickel apiece to view everything. “Fritz had a collection of… Read more

Ryan Martin’s journey has come full-circle. Although that was not in his plan. The Mahomet-Seymour School Board voted unanimously Monday night to approve the hire of Ryan Martin as the Assistant Principal of Middletown Prairie Elementary for the 2018-2019 school year. Martin, who has spent 13 of his 17 years in education as a teacher… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com A trio of players accounted for 55 of the team’s 61 points and for 19 of 25 rebounds on Tuesday as Mahomet-Seymour (17-8) edged visiting Urbana, 61-59, in a non-conference boys’ basketball game. Cory Noe scored a game-high 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Holt Campion had 19 points and four… Read more

The Mahomet-Seymour High School WYSE (Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering) team won the Parkland Regional, scoring 496 out of 500 points, on February 3. The MSHS WYSE team has won the Regional Competition dating back to 2009, except in 2015 when they placed second. WYSE is an academic challenge comprised of a series of… Read more

When Mahomet’s Mike and Brandy King went on their first missions trip to the Dominican Republic in 1999, they did not expect their lives to be changed. “Brandy and I never saw ourselves as international foreign ministry-types of people,” Mike King said. “In fact, I was more like,  ‘Look at all the need around here’… Read more

By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Erik Henriksen doesn’t have to wonder what it feels like to be inside the Olympic village in the days leading up to competition. He understands the importance of navigating the hoopla surrounding The Games in order to maintain focus. Though the Mahomet resident now has a view in front of a… Read more

By: Fred Kroner fred@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour hit the Daily Double with its wrestling program on Saturday. The Bulldogs captured their fourth consecutive IHSA Regional Championship, edging runner-up Danville by 12 1/2 points, and also had individuals qualify for the Lincoln Class 2A sectional in nine of 14 weight classes. For the day, 13 of M-S’ 19 on-the-mat… Read more