Submitted photo/information Simone Henry, granddaughter of Lola and Randy Rieke and daughter of Britta Rieke, took first place on Tuesday at the New Ulm Country Club in the 13-15 Girls PGA Junior Tournament. Simone also placed first on Monday at the Fairmont Interlaken Golf Course.

Brown County Sheriff’s Office • Responded with Sleepy Eye Police to weekend and Monday reports of several loose longhorn beef steers seen in Home Cemetery, Allison Park and near Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, near the southeast corner of the Sleepy Eye Lake Trail. Sleepy Eye Police and ...

Dear Heloise: Our residential neighborhood has barn swallows. In mid-May, we realized that they had built a beautiful nest in the corner of our very small porch, and a female sat on it as the male watched from close by. When we sure that the eggs were hatched and the babies were gone, my ...

Dear Annie: In a couple of weeks, I will attend my dad’s wedding. He is 77 years old and this is his fourth wedding. That isn’t the biggest issue, though. My sister and I (both in our 50s) were surprised to find out about five months ago that his fiancee is none other than the woman he had ...

Sleepy Eye’s Independence Day fireworks went off on schedule Thursday evening. The forecast called for rain all day and despite an afternoon shower, the rain stopped hours before the pyrotechnics display over Sleep Eye Lake started at 10 a.m. Hundreds of spectators had time to gather around ...