Fall is officially here. What makes you most excited about the season?

So what does an unemployed NFL quarterback and members of the St. Louis Police Department have in common? Marge knows the answer. Marge was a reporter at an Iowa newspaper I worked at in 2009. Anytime I hear someone refer to “the liberal media” I laugh to myself as I think of ...

The excitement of a new school year could be seen on the faces of New Ulm Middle School students and staff as as they returned to the building the week of Sept. 5. New Ulm Middle School first opened it’s doors last fall, introducing a new middle level program specifically designed to meet ...

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. One of the reasons New ...

In a city that loves to hold festivals, we should hold a festival for the end of the Broadway construction project. This week crews have been painting the lane stripes and crosswalks on the repaved roads, and putting in sod in the spots where they dug up the grass medians. (Good luck getting ...

I recently gave presentations at Sleepy Eye High School and Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s High School. It was my pleasure to give the presentations, but all of the credit for making the arrangements and doing the legwork to get the programs lined up go to Officer Shawn Bohnen and Chief Matt Andres. ...

What is a sure sign that fall is here?

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. On Wednesday, Sept. 6, ...

“Cleansing” of statues continues in America — and I don’t mean spraying the pigeon poop off them with high pressure hoses, but the removal of those statues to bygone and no longer popular ideas. It is good to remember that this kind of rewriting of history has been going on since ...

The barn swallows who spend summers on our farm are gathering on the overhead wire. One day soon they will be gone, leaving us for some unknown warmer place. They are only here about four months of the year. They live intense little lives during that time, eating heartily, mating, building ...

License Bureaus across that state have undergone many changes this summer with more to come within the next year. As you may have heard, the State of Minnesota implemented the long awaited new program for license vehicles on July 24. This new program is called the Minnesota Licensing and ...

Jon Braegelmann, the 2017 Hans Joohs Sister Cities Exchange Intern, recently returned home to New Ulm from Ulm Germany. Below is his third and final article about his internship in Ulm/Neu Ulm, Germany. He gives us insights to his working experiences, living with host families and his ...

What do you think of your visit to New Ulm? Asked of Midstates Jeepster Association members and an area residents at the Thunder in the Valley Concert Saturday at HermannFest

Most people remember where they were Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, before a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field. But how many of us remember where we were on Sept. 11, 2002? On the one-year anniversary, there were memorial services ...

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. On Aug. 1, 2017 the City ...

When I was a kid, my dad used to refer to himself jokingly (I think) as “the Poor Old Dog,” usually as a light hearted (I hope) comment about the lack of respect he got from his seven children. This always drew solicitations from my mother that we should all appreciate our father and ...

What is the best/worst thing about school starting?

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. School will begin either ...

I’ve been in and covered a few disasters in my years in the news business. Most of them have been tornadoes, a couple of blizzards, with a flood or two thrown in. I thank the Lord I have never lived in a place where hurricanes happen. Tornadoes are terrible, but they are quick. They come ...

It is late August and fall is coming soon. The Brown County Highway Department has completed the crack sealing, seal coating, minor patching and graveling of county highway surfaces. In the next several weeks we will be installing some major patches on roads that are breaking down. These ...