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  • Ambassador of the Year: George Schoonover

    Mahomet Chamber Award Winners Business of the Year–P&P Heating and Cooling Emerging Business of the Year–Core Concepts Community Impact–The Open Room Ann Paul Community Servant–Mark Kesler Lyn Ferdinand Volunteer of the Year–Michael Hernandez Ambassador of the Year–George Schoonover NOTE: The Mahomet Daily will feature each of these winners in upcoming days. By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com…

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  • After three decades with Mahomet-Seymour, Beth Hawk looks back on career of growth and change

    By Isabella Zarate After 34 years in education, Mahomet-Seymour’s Beth Hawk is shutting a door and leaving her classroom one last time. Hawk graduated with a Business Education degree from the University of Illinois in ‘88, and later went on to Eastern Illinois University to earn her Master’s in Technology masters in technology in 2001.…

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  • Business of the Year: P&P Heating and Cooling

    EDITOR’S NOTE: Mahomet Chamber Award Winners Business of the Year–P&P Heating and Cooling Emerging Business of the Year–Core Concepts Community Impact–The Open Room Ann Paul Community Servant–Mark Kesler Lyn Ferdinand Volunteer of the Year–Michael Hernandez Ambassador of the Year–George Schoonover NOTE: The Mahomet Daily will feature each of these winners in upcoming days. By FRED…

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  • COVID-19 Second Booster Now Available to Eligible Recipients

    CHAMPAIGN, IL – The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District (CUPHD), in partnership with Carle Health, OSF HealthCare, Christie Clinic, Promise Healthcare, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign continue to provide COVID-19 initial vaccination doses, boosters, and Pfizer pediatric vaccinations. On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “expanded eligibility for an additional booster…

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  • Eight M-S wrestlers earn Apollo Conference first-team honors

    By Fred Kroner Eight members of the winningest Mahomet-Seymour wrestling team in school history earned all-Apollo Conference first-team honors. Included in the group is 220-pound junior Colton Crowley, a three-time all-conference first-teamer. The repeat selections for the Bulldogs were 106-pound junior Caden Hatton, 170-pound junior Brennan Houser and 195-pound junior Mateo Casillas. The other M-S…

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  • Mahomet-Seymour softball comes out on top in pitching duel

    By Fred Kroner Karley Yergler and her Mahomet-Seymour softball team came out on top Tuesday (March 29) in a masterful pitching duel at Stanford Olympia. M-S won 3-1, scoring twice in the top of the seventh, in a game where Yergler and her pitching counterpart (Danika Frazier) each allowed two hits while striking out 20…

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  • Bulldog baseball bounces back to defeat Stanford Olympia

    By Fred Kroner One day after being shut out in its first loss of the spring, the Mahomet-Seymour baseball team reached double figures in runs scored for the fourth time on Tuesday (March 29) at home. The Bulldogs upended Stanford Olympia, 11-5, thanks in part to home runs by Carter Johnson and Carter Selk. Johnson,…

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  • Kickapoo Rail Trail to be celebrated on April 24

    By Isabella Zarate Spring is upon us, meaning warm, sunny days are near. After this year’s brutal winter season, many find themselves longing for some quality time outside, and it just so happens that the Kickapoo Rail Trail (KRT) provides the community just that.  The KRT has been a unique part of the community since…

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  • Champaign County Chapter of Pheasants Forever to provide seed for wildlife habitat

    Seed for wildlife habitat plantings will be distributed by the Champaign County Chapter of Pheasants Forever (CCPF) on Saturday, April 16, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event will be held in the Illini FS parking lot, 1509 E. University Ave., Urbana. Look for the white CCPF trailer. CCPF will be offering sorghum and…

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  • Randy Houser, Rhett Walker to headline Mahomet Music Festival

    Country-music artist Randy Houser will headline the 2022 Mahomet Music Festival on August 27 after performances by rising-country stars Drew Green and Mahomet native Onoleigh (Pommier). Houser racked up three consecutive No. 1  hits with his album, How Country Feels, plus earned critical acclaim for his powerful delivery of the Top 5  smash and CMA…

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