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Mahomet-Seymour’s best kept secret: winter guard
BY DANI TIETZdani@mahometnews.com Mahomet-Seymour High School has a secret. You won’t find this team’s schedule with the other sports and activities the school provides on its 8 to 18 schedule and roster service. You probably don’t know that they compete during the winter months. You may not have even heard that they took third place…
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Commentary: Hennesy, Schultz, Cebulski and Keefe share their story
The following piece was submitted by Meghan Hennesy, Colleen Schultz, Julie Cebulski and Ken Keefe: four candidates for the Mahomet-Seymour School Board. The other candidates include Jenny Park, Jeremy Henrichs, Jason Tompkins and Lance Raver. The following opinions and statements are not those of the Mahomet Daily or it’s parent company Sangamon Currents, LLC. Sangamon…
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School Board Incumbents Form Coalition
By Ben Chapmanbenbart.chapman@gmail.com In the April 2nd election, voters will select four board members from eight candidates to fill the Mahomet-Seymour School Board. Lance Raver, Jenny Park, and Jeremy Henrichs are three incumbents campaigning to hold their seats, while newcomers Jason Tompkins, Colleen Schultz, Meghan Hennesy, Julie Cebulski, and Ken Keefe are campaigning to become…
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MSHS Boy’s basketball ends senior night with win
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Seniors scored 44 points Friday night as Mahomet-Seymour’s boys’ basketball team celebrated Senior Night with a 79-55 Apollo Conference triumph over visiting Charleston. The Bulldogs (10-16) led, 28-24, at halftime, but pulled away by outscoring the Trojans 32-12 in the third period. Junior Grant Coleman had game-high totals of 24 points and…
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A tale of the carrot, the egg and the coffee bean
This is an old tale that illustrates a lot about diversity and humanity. A young woman visited her grandmother and told her grandmother how hard life was. She was on the brink of giving up because she did not know if she could make it in this world. She was tired of struggling for everything…
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McGrath one of 26 named to Illinois All-State Academic team
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com Brisa McGrath didn’t get any advance notification. The Mahomet-Seymour senior had no hint what was going to transpire late Tuesday afternoon when the Illinois High School Association put out a press release and one of its administrators, Stacey Lambert, took to twitter with the news. As part of her after-school routine, McGrath…
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Commentary: Raising the minimum wage will hurt small business
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com There are good ideas. There are bad ideas. There are also ideas that masquerade as good, but upon closer scrutiny aren’t as beneficial as they may initially seem. I place the idea of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 in the latter category. This may seem insensitive to…
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Champaign County Electronics Recycling Collection Event May 18
An Electronics Recycling Collection Event will take place May 18, 2019, with online registration opening April 8 at 8 a.m. There are free YEAR-ROUND local electronic recycling options (with the exception of most TV’s) Click here for more details:Year-Round Recycling Options. REGISTRATION & EVENT DETAILS:There is a FOUR television limit per person/postcard (ALL TYPES, MODELS, AND SIZES OF TV’s,…