High School Trap Team completes another successful season
The 2025 Sleepy Eye Trap Team had 38 participants, down five from the 2024 season, this put us in the 5A bracket for competition.
July 2025
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Coaches and Parents: Time to feature your ball teams!
We will publish our annual Play Ball section, featuring youth summer ball team photos, in the July 31 Herald-Dispatch. This is for the teams of the littlest kids, through the high school age teams.
Heiderscheidt honored as Firefighter of the Year
Winning the American Legion’s Firefighter of the Year Award for the state of Minnesota is an undeniable accomplishment, but 2025 recipient Shaun Heiderscheidt said that being able to serve his community is incredibly meaningful on its own.
Take advantage of your rights
We have just celebrated the 4th of July, the birth of our nation, and next summer we will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country. The claim is that we are a free nation and that we enjoy rights that others do not. We need to thank God for our rights and strive to preserve them.
EDA Update
The EDA Board met on June 24. In the financial report it was noted that there was finally a payment made on the Shane’s Tire loan account after three months of delinquent payment efforts. Also, the EDA loan for business renovations that was awarded to Sleepy Eye Repair in 2015 was paid off this past month. The EDA Board also approved the annual financial commitment to the Small Business Development Center in Mankato. The SBDC has helped many of our local businesses with business plan development, business operations, cashflow management and financial analysis, marketing, website development, and making other financial decisions as they consider business startups and/or expansions. The EDA requires all applicants for EDA assistance to meet with the SBDC prior to receiving any local EDA financial assistance.
Sleepy Eye selected as a 2025 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
The City of Sleepy Eye EDA, along with the Sleepy Eye Regional Foundation, is thrilled to announce we have been selected to receive a 2025 AARP Community Challenge grant in the amount of $15,000. Sleepy Eye is one of only 383 grantees selected (out of 3,450+ applications) from across all 50 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Sleepy Eye’s 4th of July goes off with a bang!
Photos by Deb Moldaschel and Kelly Blick
Legion team posts a win for Military Appreciation Night
The Senior Legion baseball team hosted the second annual Military Appreciation Night on July 1 and defeated Mankato Loyola Post 11, 9-3 in the featured game, wearing their special “military camo” jerseys. Each player found a sponsor for their jersey and the jerseys were auctioned off during the game with the proceeds going to a charity of the Sleepy Eye Legion’s choosing.
