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Special Reports 

Agriculture Presses on in Uncertain Times

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020 Connect Business Magazine 0 Comments lake crystal, mankato, sleepy eye

Adapting to conditions outside of their control is nothing new for people involved in agriculture. Weather conditions, market uncertainty and

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Sleepy Eye’s Business Sector Is Far From Sleepy

March 12, 2020March 11, 2020 Carlienne Frisch 0 Comments sleepy eye

Sleepy Eye Coffee Company and Sleepy Eye Brewing Company are both located in the newly restored PIX Theater building with

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MN Comfort In-Home Care Services

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Lisa Cownie 0 Comments sleepy eye

  Jeremy Domeier and LeAnn Domeier (Photo by Jonathan Smith) MN Comfort In-Home Care Services Jeremy Domeier and LeAnn Domeier

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Feature Story 

Jill Berdan

January 4, 2016December 31, 2015 Carlienne Frisch 0 Comments sleepy eye

Berdan is the Sleepy Eye Branch President of SouthPoint Federal Credit Union, but she sums her job up a little more informally: “I’m supposed to get out into the community, build relationships, and find ways to fulfill needs and to drive businesses back to SPFCU.”

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Cafe Euro

September 1, 2015August 27, 2015 Grace Webb 0 Comments sleepy eye

For Renata Konopka, the path that led her to opening a restaurant in Sleepy Eye was a long and twisting one. Konopka grew up in Krakow, Poland. She lived with her mother, while her father, a U.S. citizen, lived in America.

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Mark Thomas Co.

May 1, 2015April 27, 2015 Grace Webb 0 Comments sleepy eye

When Mark Beito decided to open his own funeral supply business—Mark Thomas Co.—in 1990, he had no idea it would spring to life as quickly as it did. In fact, by 1993, he had outgrown his rented quarters in the back of the local bank and needed to expand—fast.

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Mathiowetz Construction Company

September 2, 2014August 25, 2014 Carlienne Frisch 0 Comments sleepy eye

Brian Mathiowetz is a gambler. Instead of dice, he rolls with the weather. At the time of his Connect Business Magazine interview this summer, Mathiowetz Construction Company was halfway through a three-month contract to build two roundabouts in Mankato, despite excessive rain in June.

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Farm Bureau Financial Services

March 3, 2014February 27, 2014 Daniel Vance 0 Comments sleepy eye

Sister and brother team Randi and Mike Wise, ages 26 and 33, respectively, became Farm Bureau Financial Services agents at 135 Main Street West in October 2013.

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Hacker’s Tree Farm, Nursery and Greenhouse

March 1, 2013February 25, 2013 Daniel Vance 0 Comments sleepy eye

Driving two-lane Highway 14 over slippery Sleepy Eye snow, across gravelly prairie hinterlands, and just a frozen spit or two north of eye-blink Cobden (pop. 36)—to the edges of the Earth—the wayward traveler spies an army of 6,000 evergreens surrounding the North Pole at the corner of Christmas Tree Lane and Evergreen Boulevard.

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