An empty Main Street building in need of major repairs is moving toward renovation with the help of a $25,000 economic development loan.The Economic Development Authority voted at its June meeting to approve the business assistance request by Chuck Hauser, a Sleepy Eye native who is in the process of assuming ownership of the property at 120 Main St.
Councilors began working this week to pare down a city budget for 2025 that will likely require a property tax increase greater than in recent years.The first draft of City Manager Bob Elston’s spending plan showed a nearly 10 percent hike in the tax levy, though Elston made clear at Tuesday’s council meeting he considered that only the starting point for discussion, and he expected council members to help him find places to cut and lower that increase over the next two months.Nonetheless, taxpayers can still expect a larger levy increase than in recent years, when the City Council “used up some funds” to help blunt the impact of inflation and limited tax increases to around 3 to 5 percent, Elston said.“It’s going to take more than 3 percent in ’25, I can promise you that,” he said.The preliminary budget reflected tax levy revenues of $1.9 million – about $168,000, or 9.7 percent, greater than the year before, Elston said.One rising cost reflected in the next spending plan is the city’s need to begin subsidizing its ambulance service.
In every even numbered year since 1990, Minnesota Farmfest has featured candidate forums for the Minnesota primary election races for Governor, U.S.
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.
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.
Area children displayed their best Independence Day-themed clothes, costumes and face paint for residents at Divine Providence Community Home on June 28 for the Red, White and Blue Parade with Miss Sleepy Eye royalty.
The loss of Adult Day Services at Ross Park Apartments last year left a gap in local programming for senior citizens and a sizable community room without a use, said Lisa Lax, executive director of the Sleepy Eye Housing Authority.The authority, which oversees Ross Park, recently decided on a new direction for that community room and is now promoting it for birthday parties, luncheons, classes, business presentations and other events.
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.
Faith United Methodist Church, 321 1st Ave.