Here are few of my favorite recent reads. Library staff would be happy to help you place requests on these or any other titles. If you’d like to place your own request, visit www.newulmlibrary.org and choose Library Catalog. A new school year has begun at Tiffin Academy. Amid the flurry of ...

On Thanksgiving, lights returned to Sportsman’s Park in Sleepy Eye as part of the Holiday Lights in Motion. This was the first time since 2023 that the park was decorated for the Christmas season. Sleepy Eye Holiday Lights in Motion took a year off in 2024 but is back now. Holiday Lights ...

David Keller, a New Ulm native and graduate of New Ulm High School, works as a heavy equipment operator at McMurdo Station in Antarctica — the largest U.S. research base on the continent. He’s currently stationed there for the austral summer season, which runs from August to March, ...

Starting on Friday, Dec. 5, State Street Theater will be putting on a production of “Miracle on 34th Street,” a retelling of the classic 1947 Christmas movie. “This is a great show for the family to come together,” director Justine Hanan said. “There are people of all ages in this ...

SLEEPY EYE — Usually if a high school football team heads to consecutive state tournaments, a foundation of expectations is laid. Two years in a row, time to make it three. That outlook and those expectations didn’t follow the 2000 Sleepy Eye Indians football team, however. After ...

SLEEPY EYE -- Sleepy Eye Public School Facilities Manager Craig Murphy gets excited when he talks about using a new robot to stripe and paint school athletic fields. “The (Pro X Tiny Mobile) robot has been an absolute time and money saver with almost flawless end results on all our fields ...