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NUMC grateful for volunteers

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NEW ULM -- April is National Volunteer Month (volunteer week is April 21-27). New Ulm Medical Center is grateful for the many volunteers who welcome and assist their patients and help to carry out their mission. In 2023, they had approximately 25 volunteers totaling 2433 hours worked. ...

CHS Students excel at Engineering Competition

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Last week Cathedral High School Physics students participated in an Engineering and Design Competition hosted by St. John's University. Students chose to enter the Catapult competition, where they had to design a catapult out of toothpicks, casein glue and dental floss. The catapults had to ...

It takes a village

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NEW ULM – Friday night, six new inductees joined the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame (MMHF) following the 35th annual induction ceremony held at the Best Western Conference Center. The new inductees included Johnny Mons, Dan Witucki, Crow, Pamela McNeill, Brian Wicklund and Fritz Otto ...

Backer, Eyrich, Roegiers, Sauers enter Dist. 88 HOF

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NEW ULM — District 88 Superintendent Sean Koster may have said it best introducing the 2024 District 88 Hall of Fame inductees at the Royal Oak Event Center Friday. “There are so many teachers that start out with the ambition to change the world. Any they should. They shape the minds of ...

Commissioners learn of new jail practices model program

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NEW ULM — Brown County commissioners learned of a new jail practices model program during the Brown County Public Health evaluation of maternal child health programs Tuesday. Brown County Public Health Director Jaimee Brand said the evaluation provides staff and community partners a chance ...

Kaufman serves up food and faith with art residency program

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NEW ULM – For the last two weeks, The Grand’s latest artist-in-residence Jared Kaufman, has been working on an ambitious printmaking project combining Hebrew traditions and the connection with food. Kaufman is a food writer with the St. Paul Pioneer Press and in his spare time, he indulges ...