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Main Street church gets approval to continue services
The City Council on Tuesday extended a conditional use permit for Open Bible Church to continue holding services in its Main Street location.The church was required to make improvements to meet building and fire code requirements as part of its original conditional use permit when council members approved it for one year in July 2023 by a 4-1 vote, with Councilor Doug Pelzel dissenting.In September 2024, the Council voted to give Kyle Asp, the pastor of Open Bible and owner of the building at 144 Main St.
Hwy 4 construction update
Highway 4 from Brown County Road 24 south of Sleepy Eye to Hwy 30 has reopened, though motorists should expect intermittent lane restrictions and watch for flaggers on Hwy 4 between CR 24 and Watonwan County Road 6 until mid-November as finishing work continues.
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.
Underwater fun
Portraying animated characters and creatures was a change of pace for the students who will perform “The Little Mermaid” next weekend at St.
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.