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NU Republicans favor Demuth for governor

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NEW ULM — Brown County Republicans heavily favored Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth for governor in a caucus straw poll at the New Ulm Community Center Tuesday. Demuth got 19 of 44 straw ballot votes cast. Kendall Qualls received nine votes. Getting four votes each were Scott Jensen, Mike ...

Campaign tour takes Demuth’s running mate to New Ulm

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NEW ULM – Ryan Wilson, the running mate for Minnesota Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth in her campaign for Governor, stopped in New Ulm Monday to speak with voters ahead of precinct caucuses. Wilson is an attorney and previously lost a narrow race for state auditor in 2022. He also ...

Police Logs

Police Logs

New Ulm Police • Responded to a report of an intoxicated man requesting transportation to detox at 6:10 p.m. Monday. A 56-year-old New Ulm man told police he had a Meeker County warrant. He was transported to detox and placed on hold for Meeker County. A report went to Brown and Meeker ...

Fall 2025 College-University Honors

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Buena Vista University Dean’s list Joshua Giefer of Courtland Dominick Kamrath of New Ulm Crookston Dean’s list Renae Juni of New Ulm Hailey Rose of New Ulm Sophie J Gustafson of Sleepy Eye Milwaukee School of Engineering Dean's List. Ruth Dobberpuhl of New Ulm, Mechanical ...

A decade later, St. Paul’s Amazing Race continues to amaze

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NEW ULM – At 1 p.m. sharp, the New Ulm Battery fired off a round outside St. Paul Lutheran Elementary, starting the 10th annual Amazing Race competition. After the starting gun, over 20 teams made a dash from the school to the parking lot and to their vehicles. To complete the race, each ...

Keeping ‘tradition going’

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SLEEPY EYE – Sunday, a small ice fishing community sprang up on Sleepy Eye Lake for the Sleepy Eye Sportsmen’s Club 44th Annual Ice Fishing Derby. A little over 750 people registered to take part in the fishing tradition. Most of those fishing did so from inside ice fishing shacks, but ...