Art is everywhere you look, especially if you’re at a large and artsy gathering such as the Brookings Summer Arts Festival. The Summer Arts Festival attracts enough people to Brookings fill a stadium. We’re talking about a stadium that’s packed to the rafters as in a fiery World Cup ...
To the editor: The history of New Ulm and the Minnesota River Valley is critical to Minnesota’s history. At the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS), our mission is to serve all people of Minnesota by creating meaningful engagement with history. In support of this mission, we are making significant investments to continue to preserve and share the history of New Ulm and the history of the region. MNHS is actively working on new interpretive panels to be installed at Fort Ridgely. The grounds are open daily from dawn until dusk, and visitors are encouraged to take a self-guilded tour ...
To the editor As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of this wonderful country, let us reflect on the blessings of the good Lords gift to live in the United States of America. Too much has been left out about the faith of our leaders. This Country has been blessed with leadership and thoughtful individuals that since the beginning believed that "all men are created equal". Over the years, men and women have fought and defended this Country to keep us free. Let us teach our future generations of the faith in the good Lord that has helped this nation through the bumps and bruises of wars ...
THUMBS UP School board candidate filing period opens Tuesday Anyone interested in running for school board, next week is the time to step up. The candidate filing period begins Tuesday, July 14. The window to file as a candidate ends 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 28. Any candidate who wishes to have their name on the ballot for school board during the Nov. 3 elections, needs to file with the district office during the July 14-28 window. For New Ulm’s District 88 school board, this means filing candidacy at the district office. This year, New Ulm’s District 88 has three board seats up for ...
NEW ULM - The New Ulm Film Society’s (NUFS) musical series continues Tuesday, despite a 100% chance of rain with a high probability of singing in it. The screening begins at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, at the New Ulm Public Library. “Singin’ in the Rain” was released in 1952 and is a contender for the greatest film musical of all time. The film scene for which the movie is named, where Gene Kelly sings and dances his way through a rainstorm, is one of the most iconic and recognizable images from the movies. That makes it all the more appropriate that the film is about the love ...
I have followed the World Series since 1965; the year the Dodgers beat our Twins. I was 9. As I got older, I realized the “World” Series isn’t really the world. The World Cup is the world, the entire world. Right now, here in the middle of the continent, the World Cup surrounds us. There are matches north, south, east, and west of us. Soccer is “football” to the rest of the planet. Here in America, we give that name to that other, more violent game we watch on Friday nights, Saturday afternoons, and all day Sunday. Soccer is by a lot the most popular sport on Earth. For ...
