Many Americans proudly fly the U.S. flag at their homes and places of work, but what do you do with it when it’s old and ratty and you’re ready for a new one?
Don’t just throw it in the trash like any other old item — that’s considered disrespectful.
The Sleepy Eye Servicemen’s Club now has a Unitied State Flag Retirement Dropbox. The new box is designed for people to place their tattered flags in for proper military disposal.
Rules on how to properly fly the flag were established in June 1923, when the National Flag Conference met in Washington. Its members created the Flag Code, which states that “the flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.”
The American Legion passed a resolution about flag retirement ceremonies in 1937. According to the resolution, “The approved method of disposing of unserviceable flags has long been that they be destroyed by burning.”
The U.S. flag is considered such a sacred symbol that burning it in an undignified manner constitutes desecration. The flag must be burned in a specific manner at a ceremony.
Sleepy Eye will work with New Ulm to assure all flags deposited in their box will be disposed of with the proper etiquette.
Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s High School Class of 2013 held their 10-year reunion on October 7, 2023, at the Sleepy Eye Golf Club. Pictured in the front row (left): Allison (Schwartz) Kirk, Sleepy Eye; Maddy Helget, Hopkins; Elly (Helget) Sprenger, Comfrey; RaeAnna (Zinniel) Schroepfer, Sleepy Eye. Back row: Karlie (Heiderscheidt) Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye; Molly Lax, St. Louis Park; Kari Schumacher, Sleepy Eye; Mitch Neid, Sleepy Eye; Joey Krambeer, Eagan and Sean Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye.
The Sleepy Eye Fire Department announced their two newest members: Alicia Zuhlsdorf and Drew Reinarts. Alicia is the first ever female member.
Brown Co. Sheriff Press Release
The purpose of the media release is to prevent people from being scammed by the fictitious ALT Family Farm website, while understanding that there is a legitimate ALT Family Farm operating in Evan, Minnesota. The scammers are fraudulently using the ALT Family Farm name and images of a farm in the Netherlands on their fictitious ALT Family Farm website.
Online SCAM – FRAUD – ALT Family Farm, Evan, Minnesota
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office received reports of a fake ALT Family Farm www.altfamilyfarm.com website which is advertising heavy construction machinery for sale out of Evan, Minnesota. The entire website is fictitious and none of the pictures on the website exist in Brown County, Minnesota. The suspects behind the fraudulent website tell potential customers to make payments through wireless transfer. Customers who try and make an appointment to look at the machinery are eventually unable to make contact with the suspects any longer.
While the ALT Family Farms www.altfamilyfarm.com website may look legit, it is a SCAM. There are even videos on YouTube promoting the fictitious ALT Family Farm website. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office has received reports from across the United States inquiring about the validity of ALT Family Farm. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota is naming this fraudulent web site specifically hoping that individuals attempting to check on the validity of ALT Family Farm will realize that it is a scam.
Make sure that you do your due diligence in verifying the credibility of a business and do not send money using wireless money transfers.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota is working with the Minnesota Department of Commerce to close the fictitious ALT Family Farm website www.altfamilyfarm.com down.
If you have any information regarding this site, please contact the Brown County Sheriff’s Office, Minnesota Investigator Andrew Konechne at 507-233-6716.
Sleepy Eye was well represented at the Minnesota Baseball Hall of Fame Banquet
The late Dean Brinkman was inducted into the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame Board September for his outstanding contribution to amateur baseball in Sleepy Eye, on the field, and off.
Wayne and Warren Cook received the the Glenn Carlson Distinguished Service Award. for their long and distinguished umpiring careers. This award is given to individuals whose work, actions and continued promotion have brought outstanding positive recognition to Minnesota Amateur Baseball.
One person was killed and another severely injured following a collision between two semi-trucks Wednesday morning in Adrian Township.
According to the Minnesota State Patrol (MSP), a 1995 Freightliner tractor was traveling eastbound on Minnesota Highway 30, and, at the same time, a 1998 Kenworth tractor was heading southbound on County Road 5. For undetermined reasons, the vehicles collided in the intersection around 8:23 a.m.
The Freightliner driver, Dylan Robert Maas, 31, of Sleepy Eye, was killed in the crash, while the person who drove Kenworth was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, the patrol said.
Additional details on the cause of the crash were not immediately known as authorities continued to investigate the incident.
Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s High School Class of 1961 held their 62-year class reunion on September 15, 2023, at the Sleepy Eye Golf Club. Pictured in the front row (left): Elayne (Bertrand) Meinert, Sleepy Eye; Delrose (Hauser) Stadick, New Ulm; Eileen (Bruckbauer) Gannon, Duluth; Monica (Seidl) Mueller, New Ulm; Janet (Marti) Jenniges, Amery, WI; Ginny (Schroepfer) Peichel, Chaska. Second row: Steve Schotzko, Sleepy Eye; Mary (Kruzick) Wilmes, St. Paul; Yvonne (Crouch) Haas, St. Paul; Carol (Rasmussen) Thompson, Big Lake; Marlene (Haala) Schwartz, St. Peter; Barbara (Braun) Lyon, Celeste, TX; Johnora (Hillesheim) DeGregoris, Chandler, TX; Marlene (Marks) Engelke, Arlington. Back row: Linus Kral, Sleepy Eye; Steve Ibberson, Sleepy Eye; Tom Fromm, Wisconsin Dells, WI; Arthur Helget, Hanska; Pat Wurtzberger, Sleepy Eye; Roger Kral, Sleepy Eye and Mary Jane Huberty, Sleepy Eye.
Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s Class of 1973 held their 50-year reunion on Sept. 16 at the Sleepy Eye Golf Club, front from left: Gary Tauer, Sleepy Eye; Mike Helget, Sleepy Eye; Bruce Braun, St. Joseph. Middle: Betty (Mages) Jass, Lake Crystal; Cathy (Hillesheim) Malecha, New Ulm; Annette (Sellner) Dressel, Hutchinson; Janet Tauer, Minneapolis; Lynette (Koll) Lundgren; Mankato; Linda (Baumann) Erlandson, Swansboro, N.C.; Marilyn (Hillesheim) Schauman, Sleepy Eye; Donna (Wurtzburger) Howk, New Ulm; Jane (Pelzel) Mages; Janet (Simonsen) Huiras, Sleepy Eye. Back: Myron Seidl, Hanska; Tom Moldaschel, Sleepy Eye; Debbie (Sellner) Moldan, New Ulm; Yvonne (Osmonson) Haala, Springfield; Bob Hertling, New Ulm; Brenda (Fischer) Trevino, Matagorda, Texas; Tom Pelzel, Sleepy Eye; Perry Pietig, Sleepy Eye; Mark Krzmarzick, Kasota; Brenda (Bohnen) Guldan, New Ulm; Kevin Hillesheim, St. Cloud.
Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s High School Class of 1953 held their 70-year class reunion on September 14, 2023, at the Sleepy Eye Golf Club. Pictured in the front row (left): Dorothy (Hoffmann) Waibel, New Ulm; Myrtyce (Ibberson) Remus, Sleepy Eye; Arlene (Pelzel) Tauer, Sleepy Eye; Rose (Braun) Goldschmidt, Willmar; and Ervan Moldan, Sleepy Eye. Back row: Gilbert Marso, Parkers Prairie; Carol (Goblirsch) Cibuzar, Saint Paul; Mary Ann (Remiger) Berle, New Ulm; Bernette (Hillesheim) Schumacher, Sleepy Eye, Bernice (Hillesheim) Ludewig, Comfrey and Sister Claren Sellner, Rochester.
Arrest Homicide Suspect
Date of Incident: September 13, 2023
Time of Incident: 2349 hours
Location of Incident: 29000 210th Street, Sleepy Eye, Brown County, MN
Persons Involved: Kyle Lou Ricke (43)
On September 13, 2023, the Brown County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the Minnesota State Patrol and the Iowa Department of Public Safety with information on a person who was identified as being involved in the shooting of an Algona Iowa police officer at 2000 hours. Further information was developed placing the suspect at an address in Leavenworth Township, rural Sleepy Eye MN.
With the assistance of the Minnesota State Patrol, Minnesota State Patrol Air Unit, Sleepy Eye Police Department, Brown County Sheriff’s Office Deputies took the suspect into custody without incident.
The suspect is currently in the Brown County Jail, MN. Brown County Sheriff’s Office extends gratitude to multijurisdictional partners including the Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Public Safety, FBI, for their assistance.
This case is being investigated by the Iowa Department of Public Safety. Future media inquiries should be directed to Alex Dinkla at the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
Jeremy Reed, Chief Deputy, Brown County Sheriff’s Offic
