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St. Paul’s preschooler give spirited performance at spring concert

NEW ULM – St. Paul’s Preschool students treated parents to a spring concert, Tuesday. The preschoolers entertained parents with a series of songs celebrating their faith, love of country and reading abilities. The students opened the concert by singing “My God is so Great” and ...

NU Garden Club host speaker from Ribizli Seed Company

NEW ULM - The New Ulm Garden Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 6 at the New ulm airport. The guest speaker will be Monika Sziron Torzewski from Ribizli Seed Company. She will share the story of how she started her business of curating heirloom seeds and selling Hungarian heritage gifts.  The meeting will also include a power point presentation given by club members Deb Steinberg and Julie Gartner from their recent trip to Mexico to see the Monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico and how they migrate back to Minnesota in May. The meetings are free and open to the public.

All the fun of Churchill Downs in Goosetown

NEW ULM – Saturday, Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky was host to the 152nd Kentucky Derby, but the New Ulm area was able to get in on the excitement. For the fourth year in a row, Black Frost Distillery held its Kentucky Derby viewing party. The distillery livestreams the race for ...

The real McCoy on display

NEW ULM — The Smallest Museum in Minnesota, a compact glass display case on the sidewalk outside The Grand Center for Arts & Culture at 210 North Minnesota Street, is open for the season. It now features vintage McCoy planters from a collection owned by local artist Maggie Schwab. The call ...

NU Diocese answers questions on teacher retirement benefits

NEW ULM – Over six months after it was announced that the New Ulm Diocese’s retirement and pension plans for current and former employees were facing a shortfall, employees are starting to hear answers. The New Ulm Diocese held a series of workshops to explain and answer questions on ...

A dynamic duo at interpretation

NEW ULM – Last Saturday, Minnesota Valley Lutheran (MVL) seniors Paige Berg and Elizabeth Halvorson represented their school at the State Speech Tournament by performing an abridged version of “Little Shop of Horrors.” Berg and Halvorson were competing in the Duo Interpretation speech ...