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PUC authorizes replacement of 60-year-old substation breaker

Local News

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized accepting a bid on a new 69kV breaker for the city’s Center Street Substation. This new breaker will replace a 60-year-old oil-filled breaker. Utility Planning and Development Engineer Dan Pirsig said this was the last of ...

‘Collecting little stories about people’

Local News

NEW ULM — Vicki Pieser never set out to write a book about Brown County’s Jewish community. “I was just collecting little stories about people,” she said. Over time, those stories grew into a full manuscript, now published as Jews in Germantown: The Diaspora in Brown County, ...

PUBLIC NOTICE

Legals

PUBLISH (November 21, 28, 2025) STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF BROWN FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT DISTRICT COURT PROBATE DIVISION Court File No. 08-PR-25-1071 Estate of Charles E. Kotten, Decedent NOTICE AND ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, ...

Cathedral Class ‘75

Mailbag

NEW ULM - Cathedral High School class of 1975 held their class reunion Aug. 23 at Schell’s Brewery. The class had 94 members and 54 were able to attended. L to R: Jim Seifert, Pat (Lindsay) Norman, Doug Zwach, Karen (Manderfeld) Johnson, Ken Schugel, Lorie (Lindmeier) Schlomann, Ken Bastian, ...

St. Anthony Honor Rolls

Mailbag

Grade 6 A Honor Roll: Nora Bailey, Emma Breu, Aaron Finstad, Matthew Finstad, Kate Fischer, Ethan Forstner, Jack Hazuka, Audrey Hillesheim, Kyley Johnson, Lucille Jumper, Malley Krzmarzick, Sol Larson, Autumn Nachreiner,J ake Nosbush, Abigail Schneider, Elle Wald, Evelyn Weier, Austin ...

Grand jury indicts Hanska double murder suspect

Local News

NEW ULM – A grand jury has formally indicted Randy Thomas Zimmerman with first-degree murder in the death of Justin Reinarts and Tabitha Trescott. The new charges against Zimmerman came during his initial hearing on Tuesday. Zimmerman was initially charged with the second-degree murder of ...