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10 Question Friday: Jennifer Kassem
About Jennifer: I grew up in New Lenox, Illinois. I graduated from the Kennedy-King College/UIC Dental Hygiene program in 1999, and am a Registered Dental Hygienist. I met my husband, Nezar Kassem, at UIC when we were both in our last year of school. In 2002, we moved from Naperville, IL to Mahomet, and opened…
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Mahomet-Seymour Swimming improves to 8-2
By Fred Kroner For the third consecutive meet and the fourth time in six meets this season, Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ swimming team was the meet winner. The team’s latest triumph was on Monday (March 8) at Danville. M-S won the dual meet 93-34. The Bulldogs swept the three relay races and also had the winner in…
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Bulldogs look to break losing streak
By Fred Kroner The short-handed Bulldogs were held to their lowest point total of the season on Monday (March 8) and dropped an Apollo Conference decision at Teutopolis, 52-29. Cayla Koerner scored 10 points, Durbin Thomas had five points and Caitlin Thomason contributed four points for the Bulldogs. Alayna DeWitt made the team’s only three-point…
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Mahomet-Seymour loses to Teutopolis
By Fred Kroner Shooting woes proved costly for the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team on Tuesday (March 9) in a 63-36 Apollo Conference loss to Teutopolis. The Bulldogs made just 6 of 18 free throws (33 percent) and only 2 of 14 three-point attempts (14.3 percent). Beyond that, M-S coach Ryan Bosch said, “We missed a…
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Bulldogs open soccer season with win over Teutopolis
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Sam Henrichs and Nate Lundstrom each had hat tricks on Tuesday (March 9) as Mahomet-Seymour’s defending Apollo Conference boys’ soccer champions opened the 2021 season at home with a 9-0 shutout over the newest Apollo member, Teutopolis. M-S led at halftime 7-0. Besides the three goals, Henrichs and Lundstrom had one…
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Mahomet-Seymour Class of 2021: Senior Spotlights
The Mahomet Daily will recognize Mahomet-Seymour High Schoolgraduates each week until graduation on May 28. Senior students will stillhave the opportunity to submit a photo and answer questions in theupcoming months. To participate, contact Principal Chad Benedict atcbenedict@ms.k12.il.us.
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Commentary: This view from above
In the last twelve months, everything on the ground has changed. But today I find myself in the same spot I was almost exactly a year ago: about 37,000 feet above the ground in a pressurized cabin with a little more than 100 people, looking down at the top of the clouds that are still…
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Commentary: This view from above
In the last twelve months, everything on the ground has changed. But today I find myself in the same spot I was almost exactly a year ago: about 37,000 feet above the ground in a pressurized cabin with a little more than 100 people, looking down at the top of the clouds that are still…
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County Clerk notifies residents of scam
The Champaign County Clerk’s office is notifying residents of a phone scam that was discovered late Tuesday afternoon. The scammer calls from 217-384-3720, the County Clerk’s office main line, and asks for personal/banking information from individuals to help settle delinquent property taxes. The Champaign County Clerk’s office will never personally contact individuals by phone to settle…
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Commentary: Tribes
By Jason Schifo I have been thinking quite a lot lately how things have changed, and how those changes have affected my family, your family, our community and the world. I have been thinking about this because like you, I have some deep concerns about not only where we are headed, but how we are…