Washington Learning Center (WLC) offers classes beginning with expectant parents, infants through kindergarten and is the home of Community Education. WLC is focused on providing education opportunities for all ages. Being a parent is hard work. We work to provide parents with a network of ...

Happy fall! The Assessor’s office is busy finishing up their routine inspections and starting to focus on Sales and New Construction. Sales Study An important tool in the equalization of market values is the sales ratio. This is a twelve month study that begins on Oct. 1 and ends on Sept. ...

What do you like about raising poultry? (Asked at the New Ulm Poultry and Pigeon Show Saturday)

Another Sept. 11 has come and gone with solemn remembrances and ceremonies and as typical, calls for some version of the national unity that permeated this country in the attack’s immediate aftermath. In the coincidences of coincidences, the U.S. House of Representatives, for a fleeting ...

It has been a few decades since I last visited the Minnesota State Fair. Back then the only food you could get on a stick was a Pronto Pup or a caramel apple. The Dairy Booth passed out brochures decrying the dangers of colored oleo, and the Minnesota Pork Producers Association auxiliary ladies ...

Editor’s Note: The City of New Ulm presents a weekly column highlighting activities in different departments in the city government. Once a month the city will answer questions from readers. Questions on New Ulm city issues can be sent to comments@ci.new-ulm.mn.us. The New Ulm Police ...

I have been asked questions about Hermann multiple times during my time in New Ulm. I have to admit that no, I did not know about Hermann before I came to Minnesota and thus no, I have not visited the ‘Hermannsdenkmal’ in Detmold, Germany either. So for me, it was astonishing to see how ...

I was at the Corn Days street dance in Sleepy Eye. Up on a flatbed trailer, Heidi and his Good Ole Boys were offering up their distinctive blend of Americana musical dishes. There was a gap on First Avenue between the band and picnic tables, a place set aside for dancing. Early in the ...

The Brown County Planning and Zoning Office include a multitude of areas. One of these is Land Use Permits, commonly referred to as building permits. Please come in to our office early in your building planning process if you are thinking of building or moving on a structure out in the rural ...

Is it jacket weather yet?

Nearly two years ago, voters elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States. Using electoral votes as a barometer, he was elected by a fairly large margin despite assertions he was too impulsive, amoral, divisive, and not truly representative of Republican values. Since ...

The first Hermann run/walk was organized in 2008 and was called the Flandrau Trail Trot. This was the department’s first ever organized “fun run.” The course was purposefully created to be scenic, yet challenging by taking partici- pants up Center Street Hill, along Summit Avenue, through ...

Election Security is an issue that seemed to resound in the 2016 Presidential Election. Minnesota takes pride in the security that is implemented at each of our elections. There is a lot of accountability that goes into each voter record that is included in the State Voter Registration System ...

What do you like about the New Ulm Toy Show? (Asked at the New Ulm Civic Center Saturday, Sept. 1)

The locals call it Blood Alley. On a map, it’s identified as Highway 21. The highway starts near St. Louis and snakes its way to the Arkansas border, where it continues under a different name. For a bit of context, Missouri highways have three things Minnesota highways don’t: ...

Located in the lower level of the New Ulm Public Library is the NUCAT (New Ulm Community Access TV) Public Access Studio. Recently updated with High Definition camera equipment, this studio is used to record library events, talk shows, forums and more. What many people may not know is that ...

When I was a kid, I liked to fall asleep with the Twins game on the radio. The gentle tones of Herb Carneal lulled me to sleep. Franklin Hobbs played soothing music through the night on WCCO to which I would occasionally wake and drift back to sleep. On June 5, 1968, the Twins beat the ...

It is important to understand the situations in which commencing a redetermination of benefits is important to the management and repair of existing drainage systems and to the establishment and construction of other drainage projects. First, the most frequently urged and most compelling ...

Hi. My name is Anna Koehler, I am 22 years old and I am this year’s Sister Cities exchange intern from Ulm, Germany. I recently finished my first internship at the KNUJ Radio station and I will be working at The Journal until Sept. 28. I am a university student studying English and Rhetoric ...

What one thing do you want to do before summer ends?