Three times a week the Parks Department measures the thickness of ice on Sleepy Eye Lake and also measures the oxygen level in the water. Tuesday morning Craig Fischer met this reporter at the lake to show how it's done.
The 150th Anniversary Committee will be meeting January 19 at noon in the City Council Chamber. This committee welcomes new members and they are also looking for someone to chair the event. If you’ve been thinking that you might like to be involved, this is your opportunity. The meetings are scheduled for one hour and a light lunch is served.
People who live in good health for 100 years and longer are not just lucky. Researchers have found that those who live an exceptionally long and healthy life often have company in their very own families. Scientists are now aiming to better understand the genes, lifestyle or other factors that make these people so unique. Hopefully, we can all benefit from their findings.
The Sleepy Eye FFA December Members of the Month are Manny Poplow, Lily Kallevig and Trevor Rathman; Morgan Hoffmann is Officer of the Month. Manny Poplow is in 9th grade and has been in FFA for one year.
The thin gray wire, all fence like, extended the full length of the woods. No doubt it had purpose by either keeping something in or others out. Perhaps it offered safety on each side of it, depending upon which side of the fence you were on so-to-speak. Truth is, I’d never gone near it nor paid much attention to it until today.
SLEEPY EYE CHURCHES Calvary Baptist Church, Pastor Phil Siefkes, 794-6048, 220 4th Ave. SW, calvary-answers.org Sunday Service - 10:45 a.m.
About 2 in 5 Minnesota homes have dangerous levels of radon; every home should be tested January is radon action month. Brown County Public Health has a limited number of short term radon test kits at no charge on a firstcome, first-serve basis to homeowners in the Brown County area beginning Wednesday, Jan.
In January Venus emerges from its short trip between Earth and the sun to become a “morning star.” It begins a rapid climb over the southeastern horizon in mid-month, making its way toward much dimmer Mars. Try looking just before the sky starts to lighten on the 29th. Venus will be to the upper left of a thin waning moon and Mars will be between them, but closer to the moon.
Lamberton, Minn. – 2021 was a year of limited precipitation during the growing season at the University of Minnesota Southwest Research and Outreach Center near Lamberton. Total annual precipitation for 2021 was 23.66 inches. This was a departure of minus 3.70 inches from the historic average. The year’s largest rain event was on August 29 with 2.17 inches recorded. There was only 2.33 inches of precipitation recorded for the period of June 1 to August 22 resulting in a severe shortage of soil moisture available for crop growth. The normal precipitation for this same period is 10.01 inches. Above normal precipitation from the middle of August to the end of September allowed for a recharge in soil moisture.