Sarah Shelander

Sarah Shelander

  • Joined: February 5, 2025
  • Articles: 1393

Schwartz to vie for ‘Queen of the Lakes’

Sleepy Eye’s Abigail Schwartz will compete to be the Minneapolis Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes later this month along with 45 other candidates from across Minnesota.Schwartz, the 2023 Miss Sleepy Eye, will participate in the Aquatennial Ambassador Organization Candidate Program July 22-28, with a schedule full of visits to Minneapolis sites, the Torchlight Parade and the coronation on July 27 at the University of Minnesota.A 2023 St.

MARKET DRIVEN

Nearly eight decades in, the Sleepy Eye Auction Market still plays a central role in town, not just in the lives of local cattle farmers but also for the many others who make it hum – or just watch it go – week after week.

Softball team wins tourney

Sleepy Eye’s 16/18U softball team won the New London-Spicer Dirt N’Turf Tournament on June 30, improving its record to 13-1 on the season.Sleepy Eye won its first tournament game over Little Falls 22-0.

Details of Balchem accident released

A Sleepy Eye plant that makes powdered creamers had a clogged dryer, and two employees were trying to dislodge the blockage when about a thousand gallons of 200-degree water discharged, severely burning one of the workers and nearly killing him, according to an account of the June 3 accident released this week.Balchem, the company that owns the factory at 301 Main St.

Animal mistreatment case that made mess of salon nets jail time

A husband and wife have each been sentenced to three days in jail, 12 days of community service and a year of supervised probation for their part in an animal mistreatment case this winter that resulted in a dog’s death, a busted water pipe in their second-story apartment and extensive damage to the Main Street salon below it.Aaron Scott Grubham, 36, and Krista Michelle Grubham, 38, were both sentenced this past week for their guilty pleas to a misdemeanor count of mistreating an animal by depriving it of inadequate food or shelter.