NEW ULM - Veterans, families and students at the MVL (Minnesota Valley Lutheran) Fieldhouse helped kick off the first of a slate of Veterans Day programs Wednesday morning. The program opened with a presentation of the colors with both students and the New Ulm Area Veterans Color ...
Across Minnesota on election night, Democratic candidates claimed victory in several key races, but Republicans were able to hold on to seats in State Senate District 15 and House District 15B with Braxton Seifert of Marshall and Geri Theis of Redwood Falls winning their elections by wide ...
Tuesday’s election saw massive wins for Democrats in Congressional races across the country and that includes a surprise DFL win for Jake Johnson in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District over GOP incumbent Brad Finstad. Johnson declared victory early Wednesday morning with 163,057 votes ...
Approximately $60,000 in additional revenue for New Ulm Public Schools will come into effect July 1, 2027 thanks to the passing of Constitutional Amendment I, “Increasing funding to school districts.” This money is not coming from tax dollars, but from Minnesota’s Permanent School Fund, which has generated its current $2.3 billion from school trust lands, timber, leases, mineral rights, and investments. The amendment will change the formula for how funds are distributed, basing funding on a 4.5% average value rather than on interest and dividends as it had previously done. ...
NEW ULM – New Ulm’s Ward 4 will have a new City Councilor in 2027. Sue Ullery won the council seat Tuesday through a write-in vote. A total of 355 write-in votes were submitted for New Ulm’s Ward 4 council seat. Ullery received the majority of the votes with 240. Going into Tuesday’s ...
Amy Jean Klobuchar became the first woman elected Hennepin County attorney in 1998, the first woman U.S. senator from Minnesota in 2006, and on Tuesday she became the first woman to be elected Minnesota’s governor. Klobuchar, 66, prevailed over Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth as Democrats secured the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s hold on the governor’s office for a fifth consecutive term. As a U.S. senator for 20 years, a 2020 presidential candidate and now Minnesota’s next governor, Klobuchar has cemented her place as one of the most-talked-about and written-about ...
