BROWN COUNTY — The Comfrey Comets 4-H club recently received a $750 Helping Hands University Extension Service community service grant to be used to purchase fabric to sew gowns for mammography patients at the Allina Health-Springfield Clinic. The Comets will team with local quilting ladies ...

SLEEPY EYE – All eyes in the pheasant hunting community will be on Sleepy Eye this October and the community is looking for hunting guides to help showcase the community. The community was selected to host the 2024 Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener (GPHO), Sat. Oct. 12. The GPHD is part ...

WINTHROP — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has fined the Winthrop Heartland Corn Products (HCP) ethanol plant $11,200 for failing emission stack tests. Tests in November 2021 and February 2022 showed the company emitted volatile organic compounds and particulate matter above ...

SLEEPY EYE — A waiting list remains open for the South-Central Minnesota Mental Health Conference set for Wednesday, May 1 at the Sleepy Eye Event Center. The free, inaugural conference coordinated by the Brown County Mental Health and Wellness Action Team (MHWAT), is set for 8:30 a.m. to ...

SLEEPY EYE — The Sleepy Eye FFA Chapter and its many members have won many awards through the years, at regional, state and national levels. This year, it reached the pinnacle of state FFA chapter awards, finishing first in the Minnesota Premier FFA Chapter contest at the 95th Minnesota FFA ...

SLEEPY EYE — Rural Sleepy Eye resident Dean Domeier said he was burning brush Wednesday afternoon when the fire quickly consumed an abandoned residence, old cars and a grove of trees just south of CR 24, a couple miles west of State Highway 4. “I was just burning a brush pile. The next ...