Sarah Shelander

Sarah Shelander

Trump support holds steady in Sleepy Eye

Sleepy Eye voters chose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in nearly identical numbers this year as they did in 2020, favoring him 73 percent to 26 percent for president.Totals from the Minnesota Secretary of State showed Trump, who was declared the winner nationally by Wednesday morning for a second term, received 1,262 votes this election in Sleepy Eye’s two precincts, versus 448 for Harris.

Food for Kidz

One hundred seventy-five people, many of them children and teens, helped fill, weigh and pack 74,660 meals of cinnamon-sugar oatmeal on Sunday at the Sleepy Eye Event Center.The hours-long food-packing session was the 20th annual in Sleepy Eye to be hosted by Food for Kidz of Stewart, MN.

Former teacher pleads guilty in child porn case

A former high school art instructor who taught last year at Sleepy Eye Public School entered a guilty plea last week to a federal charge of distributing child pornography and faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.Daniel John Janke, 55, of Mankato accepted an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to the one count in exchange for the dismissal of three additional charges that allege he received two videos and an image depicting child pornography.