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Campaign raises $8,700,000 for new St. Anne building

WABASSO – After over a century of serving children and youth, St. Anne’s Catholic School in Wabasso is preparing to build a new school to better serve current and future Catholic school students. “St. Anne’s Catholic School is rooted together in a rich 101-year-old history and ...

River Congress pushes for water storage

MANKATO — As the Minnesota River floods the Minnecon Park boat/fishing access and erodes Riverside Park, river conservation officials, river advocates and concerned citizens met at the Kato Ballroom Thursday to discuss current and future conservation efforts. The River Congress, a ...

$25 million elevator expansion underway in Morgan

MORGAN — Motorists on State Highway 67 may wonder what a 200-foot crane is doing at the Farmward Cooperative Morgan grain elevator. It’s part of a $25 million elevator expansion project with safety and automation technology updates that will enable the elevator to operate more efficiently ...

SE Council hears Hwy.14/Co. Rd. 10 safety evaluation

SLEEPY EYE — Brown County Commissioner Brian Braun presented the Sleepy Eye City Council with a safety evaluation of the U.S. Highway 14-County Road 10 intersection Tuesday. Braun said with help from Brown County Highway Engineer Wayne Stevens, he got a Minnesota Department of ...

Sleepy Eye man faces four sexual conduct with child charges

SLEEPY EYE — Four felony online sexual conduct charges involving an underage girl were filed against a 37-year-old Sleepy Eye man in Brown County District Court Tuesday. Shawn James Severson was charged with two counts of engaging in electronic communication relating or describing sexual conduct with a child and two counts of distributing material that relates/describes sexual conduct to a child. A bail hearing was set for 9 a.m. June 12. According to court documents, Sleepy Eye Police Investigator Shawn Bohnen learned on May 3 that a female age 15 or younger was receiving ...

Courtland Council works on drainage issues

COURTLAND —The Courtland City Council on Thursday worked on how to solve water drainage issues on Wishbone Way and Stony Point. Residents, Tom Suess and John Stadick, were present last month and at this month’s meeting to express their concerns about water not draining off their properties on Wishbone Way in Courtland and look for ways to resolve the issue. “Council member Justin Kraus and I met with Bolton and Menk to look at the issues on Wishbone Way and had them survey it. We received a bid for $77,705 for both sides of the street, without engineering, to install a twelve ...