Sleepy Eye’s Evan Thompson and Winsten Nienhaus have the kind of friendship that starts in kindergarten and grows with the years, to where Nienhaus can now call Thompson, a state-ranked heavyweight wrestler, “a big ol’ baby” for a laugh – before talking about how much he’s seen his friend grow as an athlete on the mat.“He used to be able to just out-muscle kids and now he actually has so much more technique.
The School District is pitching a proposal to build a community rec center and performing arts space that the city would operate and local taxpayers would partially fund with a bond referendum.Superintendent John Cselovszki shared his early vision of the project at a School Board meeting last week, saying it grew out of discussions this winter with Mayor Wayne Pelzel.
News that a Rochester middle school must drop Bison as its school nickname prompted the Sleepy Eye School Board to postpone a decision on its next mascot until it has assurances that whatever it chooses won’t face the same fate.A 17-member committee had recommended the School Board replace Indians with Bearcats and forwarded three other finalists it had considered: Phoenix, Storm and Bison.
HAPPY GRANNYPre-schooler Emma Garcia, dressed as a 100-year-old lady for her 100th day of school, pets Maury, a 10-day-old kid held by junior Kayla Hecht on Friday at the Sleepy Eye FFA animal carnival.
It is winter sports playoff time with many local teams still involved.
Participation in the mental sport known as Knowledge Bowl is running so high at Sleepy Eye High School that the program needs two rooms for its 7:30 a.m.
National FFA Week was celebrated Feb.
The former owner of the defunct Poppy’s Bar & Play on the Railway was sentenced Monday to two years of supervised probation and 40 days of jail time already served for a criminal charge that followed the abrupt closure last year of his short-lived Sleepy Eye restaurant.Dane Allen Burton, 27, of Winthrop pleaded guilty to felony unauthorized possession of gambling equipment belonging to the Sleepy Eye Arena Association, which conducted charitable gambling pull tabs at Poppy’s.
Sleepy Eye slogged through the start of its opening playoff game against New Ulm Cathedral, slowed by turnovers and missed layups, but the No.