Champaign’s Mayor Deb Feinen issued to emergency orders Tuesday in efforts to curb an uptick in COVID-19 cases as students return to the University of Illinois. “According to the modeling data provided by University of Illinois researchers, the next several weeks will be critical to making sure the spread of […]
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CUPHD issues COVID-19 Face Coverings and Gathering Restrictions Ordinance
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department has issued a COVID-19 Face Coverings and Gathering Restrictions Ordinance to protect the citizens and visitors within Champaign County from contracting SARS-Co V-2 (COVID-19) disease by preventing its transmission, and to promote public health. Unlike the Illinois Department of Public Health emergency rule, which just […]
Prairieview-Ogden at Heritage Junior High School Baseball Photos
Prairieview-Ogden visited Heritage Junior High School on Aug. 17 to kick off the 2020 junior high baseball season. To see the full gallery, click here.
Illinois Department of Public Health Launches Travel Map to Provide Guidance on Travel Risk
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) launched a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) travel map to help inform residents of potential risks associated with traveling during the pandemic today. The map indicates countries and U.S. states with increased risk of COVID-19 based on case rates. “Travel may increase the chance […]
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. [pdf-embedder url=”https://sjodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IDPH-School-FAQs.pdf”]
Isenhower steps into role as Superintendent of Prairieview-Ogden
When Jeff Isenhower was hired in Feb. 2019 to become the superintendent of Prairieview-Ogden in the fall of 2020, he had no idea that right before he was going to take the helm a global pandemic would rock the foundation of everything from business to how a district provides an […]
Pandemic aid to start flowing to local governments in Illinois
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@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 […]
Brien Hawkins follows passion 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 […]
Commentary: Doing what’s difficult now will help us regain passions in the future
By FRED KRONER fred@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 […]
Champaign County Forest Preserve’s Board of Commissioners Approves Initiative
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 […]
