Dyckman Free Library News
The library has some exciting programs scheduled over the next month.
September 2024
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Sleepy Eye City Clerk Office Closure – 1 day – Sept. 20, 2024
Our motor vehicle staff will be attending the Minnesota Deputy Registrar Association annual meeting on Sept.
Medals awarded for actions in 2023 capture of Iowa police officer’s killer
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday presented medals to the officers and dispatcher involved in the capture last year of the man who killed Police Officer Kevin Cram of Algona, Iowa.The arrest at a rural home south of Sleepy Eye ended a four-hour manhunt that began in Iowa on Sept.
Food for thought
Students in an eighth-grade health class received a special lesson Tuesday from Chef John Sugimura during his multi-day visit promoting Japanese food and culture at Sleepy Eye Public School.In less than 30 minutes, Sugimura enlisted the teenagers’ help with cooking, garnishing and serving dumplings made with his grandmother’s century-old recipe, while sharing tidbits on healthy eating, a personal anecdote about being different and bullied, and a story of resilience about his immigrant grandmother, who found early restaurant success in California, raised six children as a widow, and spent years of imprisonment in a U.S.
Scenes from Homecoming Street
Sleepy Eye Public School students had fun with a “Sesame Street” theme for their Homecoming Coronation program on Sunday.
Traffic stop was golden ticket to finding swindle suspect
As scams go, the one detailed recently in Brown County District Court begins with a sad but all-too-familiar tale of modern life: An 87-year-old woman, hoodwinked by computer and phone, sends $1,000 in gift cards to someone claiming to be with Microsoft.The case ventures off the beaten path from there, however, to $85,000 in gold bars changing hands in a Walmart parking lot, a traffic stop that turns priceless weeks after the fact, and the ultimate rarity in swindles of the elderly: a suspect’s name and a criminal charge.The events in New Ulm underscore the danger of scams in every community, particularly against seniors, and the ever-changing playbook of thieves.
Scammers: Attacking vulnerabilities ‘over and over again’
For police, public education on the dangers of swindlers and scams is an endless task.Sleepy Eye Chief Matt Andres has written on the topic numerous times, and he and Investigator Shawn Bohnen have spoken to many groups over the years to try to help people avoid being taken for a loss.
Citing ‘operational concern,’ new owner raises rates at SE Assisted Living
Residents and their families will see a jump in rates this month at Sleepy Eye Assisted Living, with the price of rooms rising as much as 60 percent under the new owner of the facility, Monarch Healthcare Management.Monarch CEO Marc Halpert said the increases follow a six-month review of services, care and care packages after the company bought the assisted living community for seniors from the previous owner, Volunteers of America National Services, a nonprofit affordable housing developer and senior healthcare provider with operations nationwide.Monarch’s review found the assisted living facility “was quite below cost, causing major operational concern,” Halpert said in a statement that he gave last week to the Herald-Dispatch.
Councilor Pelzel critically injured in crash
City Councilor Doug Pelzel was airlifted with critical injuries after he crashed his motorcycle with a passenger Saturday afternoon in rural Lake Crystal.The Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office released details of the accident on Tuesday.