{"id":143539,"date":"2025-08-06T21:57:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=143539"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:58:11","slug":"star-tribune-small-town-hopes-residents-change-their-ways-warning-inaction-could-cost-them-their-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/star-tribune-small-town-hopes-residents-change-their-ways-warning-inaction-could-cost-them-their-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"StarTribune: Small town hopes residents change their ways \u2014 warning inaction could cost them their lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greater Minnesota<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sleepy Eye\u2019s beloved beach has been closed down twice this summer.<\/p>\n

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By Jp Lawrence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Minnesota Star Tribune<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The city of Sleepy Eye, Minn., is asking residents to stop mowing grass into the street because of a toxic algae bloom on the city’s lake. The city posted a photo of the algae on July 9, 2025, the first of two instances in which Sleepy Eye closed its beach. (Courtesy of the City of Sleepy Eye )<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Leaders in a small Minnesota town are asking residents to do something deeply outside their nature: confront neighbors who are doing their yardwork the wrong way.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Residents in Sleepy Eye are being asked to tell their neighbors to not mow their grass into the streets in order to help stop a smelly, toxic algae bloom that\u2019s closed down the city\u2019s lake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe get it \u2014 awkward conversations aren\u2019t fun. But neither is canceling events, closing beaches, or disappointing kids and visitors,” the Sleepy Eye Area Chamber of Commerce\u00a0said in a post<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cRemind them it\u2019s not just grass \u2014 it\u2019s what could cost us our lake,” the post said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The beach at Sleepy Eye Lake has been closed since July 29, the second time this year, because of a blue-green algae bloom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cyanobacteria outbreaks \u2014 also called blue-green algae blooms \u2014 have been known to kill pet dogs and sicken children, who are more vulnerable to the toxins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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These outbreaks have been\u00a0increasing in nearly every part of the country over the last 20 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sleepy Eye is about two hours southwest of the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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