Since beginning in New Ulm in 1996, New Ulm’s Just for Kix (JFK) — a youth dance class organization — has had no permanent place to hold its classes. “We’ve been all over the community in different locations, really needing a place that we can be at permanently,” Molly Reinhart, ...
NEW ULM — Some things just run in the family. For the father-son duo of Ben and Broddy Enter, two of those things are their 2,500-pound SportMod race cars. While no stranger to racing, Ben Enter returned to dirt oval tracks around Minnesota this summer after an 11-year absence to get ...
A June visit to Aachen, Germany with the Region Nine Development Commission (RNDC) proved to be a great learning and idea exchange experience for New Ulm members Dave Borchert, Andrea Boettger and Derek Nelson. Borchert has many titles including New Ulm Police Chief and Emergency Management ...
It is back to school time for districts across the state, for the Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop (GFW) elementary students, they are not going back but forward into a new building. In April 2023, the GFW school board approved the construction of a K-12 school at 1157 E 13th Street Gibbon. After ...
Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the history of workers in America. One of the most interesting periods came during the Great Depression with the Works Progress Administration, later called the Work Projects Administration, from 1935 to 1943. As part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, artists were employed to work on federally funded projects. Some of these projects are pieces by great artists of the 20th century, like photographs by Dorothea Lange, sculptures by Augusta Savage, or murals by Grant Wood. Others, often collected as folk art today, were utilitarian ...
On Aug. 3, 40 athletes were crowned national champions at the 2025 USATF Outdoor and Para National Championships and were selected to advance to the 2025 Para Athletics World Championships this September in New Delhi, India. Among them was Courtland native and 1999 New Ulm High School ...
