SLEEPY EYE — Usually if a high school football team heads to consecutive state tournaments, a foundation of expectations is laid. Two years in a row, time to make it three. That outlook and those expectations didn’t follow the 2000 Sleepy Eye Indians football team, however. After ...
SLEEPY EYE -- Sleepy Eye Public School Facilities Manager Craig Murphy gets excited when he talks about using a new robot to stripe and paint school athletic fields. “The (Pro X Tiny Mobile) robot has been an absolute time and money saver with almost flawless end results on all our fields ...
Photo 1: You don’t to need read any Sherlock Holmes books to know this location, but it would help. Photo 2: A familiar hand-painted sign seen by many tourists to New Ulm. Photo 3: Just in time for Reformation Day, the hand that wrote the 95 Theses. Photo 4: Where does this sidewalk end? ...
They call it “the witch’s house.” In the four years since Merlyn and Jeanne Boesch began putting the pumpkins, spooks and witches up outside their home at 520 8. Broadway, the house has become an extra Halloween treat for New Ulm residents. THEY COME from all over the town to trick-or-treat at the house or just to look. They’ve even come from as far as the statehouse to admire it. A state representative from Rochester, Mrs. Boesch recalls, once noticed the decorated house while driving through New Ulm. Is so impressed him that he stopped to ask if he could take a picture of ...
Two area haunted houses — Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground and New Ulm Nightmares Haunted House — are back in action this October as Halloween is right around the corner. Zoo Man’s Nightmare Underground Brent “Zoo Man” Mielke has give tours of his location at 145 East Main ...
FAIRFAX — In many ways, Fairfax resident Daryl Rieke was living the American dream. Cars, motorcycles, a cozy spot in the country and a stable trucking job to support it all. Despite all of that, no amount of money or material possessions made him feel content. For years, Rieke has ...
