May 2024

ONWARD

Kennedy Braun and Gaige Bauer walk toward the stage at the start of Sleepy Eye High School’s commencement ceremony on Friday.

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SEHS seniors receive scholarships

Sleepy Eye High School announced the following scholarships awards (totaling over $60,000) presented to members of the senior class.•Kaylie Hogue Memorial: Isaac Lendt•Tyler Hadley Athletic Achievement Award: Breaunna Mertz•American Legion Post 7: Isaac Lendt•Sleepy Eye Servicemen’s Club: Austin Uecker•Fischer Groen Law & Groen Title Company Scholarship: Julia Berkner•SEEA Scholarship: Isaac Lendt•American Red Cross Scholarship: Julia Berkner•Americana Community Bank Scholarship: Cameron Schottle•Nuvera/ R.T.

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School district changes tack on rec center questions

A survey to measure interest in a publicly funded rec center for Sleepy Eye residents and their schools’ sports teams will likely go to mailboxes in August, three months later than planned, and combine what was originally proposed to be a two-part process into one questionnaire.If the School Board wants to proceed after seeing the results – likely around Thanksgiving – the decision could go to voters in a district bond referendum as early as April 2025, said Sleepy Eye Schools Superintendent John Cselovszki, a proponent of the project.Cselovszki said this week that he pushed to delay the survey from its initial mid-May release date because he grew concerned the timing would catch people as their interest in school matters waned and turned to summer.

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