Sleepy Eye’s Police and Fire Departments are set to receive a total of nine new radios to help keep them connected to a statewide communication system for public safety personnel, with the lion’s share of the expense covered by a state grant.The radios – five for police and four for fire – will replace equipment that was nearing 20 years old in some cases.
Patients will soon be able to undergo cardiac stress tests once again at Sleepy Eye Medical Center thanks to money raised by the Spirit of Giving Gala 2024.The fundraiser, which is organized by the medical center and the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation and held every other year, collected $178,295 through its auctions, sponsorships, ticket sales and other donations.
As we transition into winter, I would like to remind everyone about the parking ordinances in town, both on a normal day and when a snow emergency is declared.
Safety improvements that were made a few years ago to a dangerous stretch of Highway 14 east of Sleepy Eye near County Road 10 and Christensen Farms lowered the crash rate there to a frequency that’s now considered below average.Those rates don’t include near-misses, however, and one such close call a couple of months ago helped prompt more action by MnDOT, Brown County Commissioner Brian Braun told the Sleepy Eye City Council recently.
Andrew Ramos felt unease set in a few years ago over the thought that he might be losing his grasp on Spanish.“I was scared of me forgetting my own language,” he recalled.
The Sleepy Eye FFA applied for and received a National FFA Living to Serve Mini Grant to do a service project to lift the spirits of senior residents in our community at the local nursing homes/assisted living/rehab facilities this fall.
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.
Portraying animated characters and creatures was a change of pace for the students who will perform “The Little Mermaid” next weekend at St.
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.