Did you know that children whose parents read to them just five books a day will hear over 1.4 million more words by the time they enter kindergarten than children who are not read to each day? Ohio State’s Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy member, Jessica Logan, says this ...

A rural New Ulm man suggested Wednesday to the Journal a new phone number for police as one way of encouraging people to call police about suspicious incidents. Several persons heard screams the night a New Ulm woman was raped recently but failed to call police. Arthur Paquay, Route 1, New ...

KIDDIE PARADE winners in the Hanska Fourth of July parade sponsored by American Legion Post No. 365 Wednesday were: Bikes-Trikes 1st -Jennifer and Jeff Smesma, clowns on bikes. 2nd - Anne Miller, patriotic bike. 3rd - Jana Johnson, Susan and Lisa Bjorneberg, grocery ...

Minnesota has silenced firecrackers on the Fourth of July, except for illicit “works” smuggled in from other states, but one big noise goes on here. Unmuted, undaunted and, alas, unheard by most New Ulm residents is the annual Independence Day salute fired by the New Ulm Battery. The 13 ...

Ten youths under the supervision of the Brown County Historical Society Tuesday probed the cemetery at the Brown County pioneer settlement of Iberia as one of many steps in the restoration of the cemetery. With probing rods and shovels the youths sought to find tombstones or markers covered by ...

As a child, summer was always the season of travel. We’d pile into our white station wagon named Penguin with a car topper strapped in place and set off to family reunions, national parks, family friends in far flung places, and many other interesting sites that were fun to explore and ...