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Susan Hites is not your typical veterinarian: using chiropractic to treat family pet
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com It all started on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Or, maybe it didn’t. As a child, Susan Hites developed a deep love for animals and can’t remember ever wanting to be anything except a veterinarian. “I never wavered on this decision from first grade on,” said Hites, a Mahomet resident. Summer trips…
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Commentary: The action of ideals
“This board is faced with an important decision this evening,” Mahomet-Seymour School Board member Jeremy Henrichs said on August 3. “It’s been presented with an anti racism resolution. It seems that this would be an easy choice. I think all of us would agree that racism is evil. And that all individuals have inherent value,…
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IDPH provides school guidelines on ill students and staff, contact tracing, reporting and school closures,
The Illinois Department of Public Health have addressed many questions that parents, students and staff have about returning to school in the coming weeks. The following FAQ was released Aug. 12 to clarify their policies regarding the COVID-19 safety procedure.
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Brien Hawkins ready to roll with Brien’s Bistro
By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com The start of a world-wide pandemic hardly seems like the ideal time to undertake a new business venture, but Mahomet’s Brien Hawkins had to deal with opportunities as they arose. “In March, we started to get the ball rolling,” Hawkins said. Perhaps ‘rolling’ is too strong of a word. That’s when…
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Pandemic aid to start flowing to local governments in Illinois
By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD — The state of Illinois will soon begin distributing $250 million in federal funds to help cities, counties and other units of local government pay for pandemic-related expenses. The General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules cleared the way Tuesday for the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to…
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Glover: “I want them to know that they can do anything, So I’m still hopeful”
Maybe LaShunda Glover, Susie Jackson and Maggie Kinnamon and John and Mindy Spencer were destined to be in Mahomet for this moment. Their stories span decades, but their message is succinct: they want their children and the children of their friends to feel like they belong in the community they choose to live. Being a…
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Mahomet-Seymour Board votes down committee, willing to revisit with more information
An anti-racism resolution put together by Mahomet-Seymour alumni, and modified, but recommended by Superintendent Lindsey Hall did not receive a motion for approval by the Mahomet-Seymour School board on Aug. 3. The resolution, along with a petition signed by approximately 650 alumni, was first presented to the board on June 22. Whether or not the…
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Commentary: Doing what’s difficult now will help us regain passions in the future
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com I get it. We all want to return to what we look back on as our normal lives. We want the kids in school. We want to be finished with masks. We want our forms of entertainment to return whether that is sports, concerts, theater productions or an evening of socialization. The…
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Teutopolis joins Apollo Conference for 2020-21 school year
Teutopolis High School will join the Apollo Conference for the 2020-21 school year. The Wooden Shoes will compete in the conference for all sports that they host except football. The move becomes effective immediately and eases scheduling difficulty for the conference. Teutopolis will join current members of the conference that include Charleston, Effingham, Lincoln, Mahomet-Seymour,…
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Champaign County Forest Preserve to come to voters in November
Mahomet – On Thursday, August 6, the Board of Commissioners of the Champaign County Forest Preserves held a special public meeting at Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve and voted unanimously to put a referendum question on the November ballot. The referendum will ask voters for a very small tax increase to address a backlog…