Koozie Group raised $5,513.95 for United Way of the Brown County Area in 2023 through its writing instrument giveback program, the company announced.The program, begun in 2022, donates 5 percent of Koozie Group’s writing instrument sales referencing a specific code.
The Economic Development Authority has approved a $17,500 business assistance loan to the Anytime Fitness building on Main Street to help rehab the roof.Trevor Wittwer, who along with his wife, Erin, purchased the property at 128 Main St.
The ice on Sleepy Eye Lake gave way to open water on March 3, one of the earliest ice-out dates of the last 40 years.The earliest ice-out date on the records kept by Ron Zinniel is March 1 in 1988.
Minnesota’s 1,777 townships will hold their annual meeting on Tuesday, March 12.
The next Miss Sleepy Eye will be crowned this Saturday at the 2024 coronation event, beginning at 7 p.m.
The Sleepy Eye United High School trap team expects to begin its fifth season later this month with strong numbers, one of the lowest fees in the state and, thanks to next week’s chili feed, better equipment for its competitions.Proceeds from the Sportsmen’s Club’s annual Chili and Soup Feed on March 13 at the Servicemen’s Club will benefit the trap team this year, with proceeds helping pay for two new target throwers.
The School District is pitching a proposal to build a community rec center and performing arts space that the city would operate and local taxpayers would partially fund with a bond referendum.Superintendent John Cselovszki shared his early vision of the project at a School Board meeting last week, saying it grew out of discussions this winter with Mayor Wayne Pelzel.
News that a Rochester middle school must drop Bison as its school nickname prompted the Sleepy Eye School Board to postpone a decision on its next mascot until it has assurances that whatever it chooses won’t face the same fate.A 17-member committee had recommended the School Board replace Indians with Bearcats and forwarded three other finalists it had considered: Phoenix, Storm and Bison.