The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met virtually for their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, September 14, 2020, where the Board approved several updates to the IHSA Return To Activities guidelines, while also providing guidance on the IHSA’s independent team participation rule for the 2020-21 school year. […]
Franklin Graham is promoting a National Day of Prayer and Repentance with a Prayer March in Washington, D. C. on Saturday, September 26 on the National Mall. Dr. James Dobson, Anne Graham Lotz, Alveda King, Pat Robertson, and other national religious leaders will be speaking. Cities around the country […]
The University of Illinois Extension has announced that TEConomy Partners, LLC, a firm specializing in impact assessments, values the annual economic and functional benefits of Illinois Extension at over $603 million, about 10 times the $60.9 million annual budget of the university unit. Extension operates in all of Illinois’ 102 […]
A Back the Blue Rally will begin at the Community Park in St. Joseph on Sept. 19. Noted as a “rally parade to show support for local P.D,” the event will begin at 11 a.m., heading to Champaign-Urbana where the group will meet up with others from Mahomet and Tolono. […]
Some might say that Shani McMullin had made it. She had the job she had always wanted as a neuroscientist doing government-funded research for a bipolar network in D.C. “I wanted to be a scientist since I was 8-years old and I realized that dream right out the gate, so […]
Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons will utilize CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) grant money to acquire seven vote by mail ballot drop boxes. A press release from Ammons’ office said that the boxes are “highly secure”, made of ¼-inch steel and that ballots will be retrieved by two […]
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What do gum and a woman’s right to vote have in common? No, it’s not an unsolvable riddle. It’s the way that Homer native Jessica Jenkins feels about the women’s suffrage movement, which celebrated its centennial anniversary in 2020. “I kind of got hooked on the topic when I was […]
By Fred Kroner fred@mahometnews.com The Comets improved their season record to 3-4 on Wednesday with a 189-198 triumph over Bismarck-Henning at Danville’s Harrison Park. Seniors Reed Sperry (42) and Travis Goodner (46) posted the lowest scores for Oakwood. The Comets’ other participants were Kyle McFarland (49), Case Kopacz (52), Seth […]
