A strip of aging, partially vacant downtown buildings will be demolished and replaced with a large public utilities garage and possibly retail space under tentative plans by Sleepy Eye’s Public Utilities Commission.The commission, which oversees the city-owned electric and water utilities, bought the brick storefronts at 220 and 216 Main St.
A decade into raising bison south of Sleepy Eye, a local family has started a food truck to share its love of the meat with more people.Fischer’s Sleepy Bison Grill made its Main Street debut Friday outside Sleepy Eye Brewing Co.
Plans to improve traffic flow, upgrade utilities, resurface the road and add a sidewalk to a busy street for students and sporting events at Sleepy Eye Public School has been delayed for at least another year due to lack of funding.The city learned this month that its application for $1.5 million from the state’s Local Road Improvement Program for its School Street/4th Avenue SW project was unsuccessful.
IDEAg Group LLC., producers of Minnesota Farmfest, seeks nominations for the fifth-annual Farmfest Woman Farmer of the Year Award.
April is Poetry Month and we were so fortunate to have local author, Meriden Andres, share her newly published “Silver: A Collection of Poems.” This determined young woman published her first book at age 17 and attributes her love of poetry to her grandmother giving her a Shel Silverstein book as a child.
The annual Vehicle Fair sponsored by ECFE will be held on Tuesday, May 14, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Each year, thousands of volunteers in Minnesota donate their time and energy to make their communities a better place to live.
The Sleepy Eye GFWC and the Southwest District Woman’s Clubs met during the week of April 15-20.
Eight hand-thrown chalices waited on a table last week in Mark Thomas Co.’s pottery building, just north of the tracks that run through Sleepy Eye.
MANKATO – “Minnesota Bound” creator Ron Schara had a two-part message for anyone who cherishes the lakes and streams in our part of the state.“Our southern Minnesota story is a sad one for what we’ve done to the water,” he told his audience at a conference on lake health in the region.And yet, that story doesn’t need to end there, with an abundance of lakes no longer fit for fishing or swimming, Schara said.“We don’t have to take that,” he said.