Sleepy Eye News

NEW ULM The New Ulm Library Board discussed the 2012 OverDrive agreement for Brown County library users on Thursday at a meeting at City Hall.

Two dozen Bridging Brown County Leadership Day participants got a taste of Sleepy Eye Thursday, touring government buildings, businesses, industries and a church.

MANKATO, Minn. - The 4-day school week will soon be coming to the Sleepy Eye school district, after the board voted unanimously for the measure last night.

By unanimous decision Wednesday, the Sleepy Eye Public School board approved implementation of a four-day week, flexible-learning year program starting with the 2012-13 school year.

Hilde Dalgaard has a vague memory of the time Adolf Hitler shut down a major concertina factory when she was a child in Germany.

NEW ULM, Minn. - Last year the New Ulm Police Department dealt with more than 80 suicide-related calls.

Brian Gramentz, New Ulm's city manager for more than a decade, has dedicated his life to public service for the last 31 years.

Thanks or no thanks to the lack of appearances of Old Man Winter this season, there will be no River Valley Dutchmen snowmobile hill climb this winter.

Courtney Kramer of Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart scored 22 points in a Tomahawk Conference win Thursday night against Sleepy Eye.

City water department employees familiar with answering calls at all times of the day and night for other people at other places answered a 5 a.m. power plant alarm when a water main broke in the building's basement.

New Ulm Police, Brown County Sheriff, Allina Ambulance and New Ulm Fire Department responded to a two-car accident at the intersection of Third North and German streets in New Ulm Thursday afternoon.

SLEEPY EYE, Minn. - - Sleepy Eye Public Schools is cashing in on old electronics.

A smaller crowd, but still nearly 100 people, attended the final of three hearings Monday in the Sleepy Eye High School cafeteria as the District 84 School Board considers a four-day school week for 2012-13. Board members said exit surveys made them hopeful of community support for the transition.

A pair of Belgrade Brooten Elrosa school district administrators talked about how they converted to a four-day school week this school year at a public forum in the Sleepy Eye Public School cafeteria Wednesday.

NEW ULM, Minn, - Parents in two Minnesota school districts will have another chance to get their voices heard on moving to a four-day school week.

Johnny Holm has been rocking the upper Midwest for 43 years, but he says he still gets nervous before a show.

Jim Phillips hopes to find relatives of his father, John Harold Phillips, who came to Iowa on an orphan train from New York City in 1912.

NEW ULM, Minn. - Taxpayers in New Ulm and Sleepy Eye have another chance to voice their opinions on moving to a four-day school week in order to save money.

Fr. Jonathan James Niehaus, member of the Secular Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers, died of lung cancer in Koblenz, Germany, on January 19, 2012.

Rep. Paul Torkelson, R-St. James, and Sen. Gary Dahms, R-Redwood Falls, heard a variety of concerns Friday at the Brown County Congress of Elected and Appointed Officials at the Brown County Rural Electrician Association auditorium.