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 — 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 —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 ...
NEW ULM — Brown County commissioners unanimously approved a low bid to repair broken tile in County Ditch 16, Branch 3 in Bashaw and Burnstown townships Tuesday. Approval of a $66,945 bid with 24-inch plastic tile from Lohrenz Excavating came on a motion by Commissioner Brian Braun, seconded by Tony Berg. Ellingson Drainage bid $157,850 for the project. “The bid difference is almost $99,000. A big win for taxpayers,” said Commissioner Braun. The project is proposed to begin in early July. Brown County Assistant Highway Engineer Andrew Lang said the tile road crossing is all ...
BLUE EARTH COUNTY — Blue Earth County deputies, Mayo Ambulance and Eagle Lake Fire Dept. personnel were dispatched to the County Road 12 roundabout at Highway 14 for a crash with injuries reported at 3:50 p.m. Tuesday. Hundreds of gallons of diluted calcium chloride (commonly used as a dust ...
SLEEPY EYE — Minnesota Department of Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Commissioner Katrina Kessler talked about the Farm Bill and agricultural issues over pizza and beer at Sleepy Eye Brewing Co. Tuesday. Several dozen farmers attended the ...
