Kelly Hotovec Brown County Auditor-TreasurerThe August 9 State Primary and Congressional District 1 Special Election is quickly approaching. A primary election determines which candidates will be on the ballot in the November general election.
Three members of the Sleepy Eye Fire Department recently completed Fire Fighter 1 certification, from left: Dylan Wersal, Kyle Borth, and Nick Martinka. These men joined the department last fall and spent the winter and spring receiving the required training, education, and experience to earn certification. Deb Moldaschel
Submitted The Bridging Brown County board of directors is pleased to introduce their new executive director, Lindsy Ludewig. Ludewig has been a member of the Brown County community most of her life, including growing up in Springfield, having and raising a family in Comfrey, and having a career in Springfield for her entire adult life.
Brown County REA Brown County Rural Electrical Association (REA) along with Federated Rural Electric, Nobles Cooperative, South Central Electric Association and Great River Energy (GRE) are holding a special EV-focused event on Wednesday evening, August 10, in Windom—at the Windom Community Center, 1750 Cottonwood Lake Drive. From 5 to 7 p.m.
Deb Moldaschel Editor Last week the Dyckman Free Library hosted local author Katie Roiger who spoke about her recently published book, “Only the Brave.” The publisher, Fox Pointe Publishing, categorizes the book as a middle-grade novel, or as Roiger said, “it’s for tweens, but really for everyone.” A couple of adults at the presentation agreed, saying they’d read the book and liked it very much. “Only the Brave” is about a girl named Victoria who thinks she is going to have the worst summer in history.
Deb Moldaschel Editor The filing period to be a candidate for Sleepy Eye City Council or the Sleepy Eye District 84 School Board is open through Tuesday, Aug. 16.
Deb Moldaschel Editor The Sleepy Eye Food Shelf board of directors is very thankful for the community’s continued support of the food shelf with non-perishable food items and monetary donations. Ann McCabe, board president, said the service provided at the food shelf is as important as ever.