REDWOOD FALLS — Operating and promoting a race track isn’t a foreign concept to Velvet Dostal. It involves careful planning, community involvement, plenty of driving — in more ways than one — and many sleepless nights. Despite all of that, after helping bring Redwood Speedway back ...
The 2025 University of Minnesota Extension Service Brown County Farm Family of the Year is in a class by itself compared to most farms in southern Minnesota. A spark of inspiration at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair led Stark Township farmers Elizabeth and Craig Fischer to become curious ...
For nearly three decades 123 N. Minnesota St. has been home to Bookshelves & Coffeecups. The store is a true mom-and-pop shop as it is owned and run by husband and wife duo Gerome (“Jerry” or “Jer”) and Pam Chamberlain, who also live above the store. For 28 years, they have been a ...
Biscuit tins, first made about 1830, were some of the earliest commercial food packages. The first tin toys were made about the same time. It wasn’t too long before clever designers found ways to combine the two. Tin packaging with colorful images always caught customers’ attention, and, while fashionable art styles and scenes of foreign countries appealed to adults, children were drawn to tins shaped and decorated like their favorite playthings. In the late 19th to early 20th centuries, many companies packaged their products in tins shaped like buildings, vehicles, animals, and ...
Minnesota’s public smoking act could cause major problems for restaurants, two New Ulm restaurant owners warn. The law — the Clean Indoor Air Act — goes into effect today, but it is questionable whether indoor air in New Ulm is going to be cleaned up substantially because of it. Most bars and offices surveyed indicated that they will deal with the law by declaring their entire buildings smoking areas, while restaurant proprietors debated the merits of the act. “It presents enormous problems,” says Don Veigel of Veigel’s Kaiserhoff. “No question about it,” adds ...
For nearly a decade, Marja Sowers has been growing Power Haus Yoga. “It happened by chance,” Sowers said. “My husband and I were living in the cities, and we were going to move back to New Ulm. And the place that I took yoga at, Core Power Yoga, was offering teacher training. And I was ...
