THUMBS UP Festival season starts with Bavarian Blast Bavarian Blast started this week marking a beginning to the season of festivals in New Ulm, “The City of Festivals.” For the next few months New Ulm will either be celebrating a festival or be preparing to celebrate a festival. Next ...
To the editor: Donald Trump is a felon. CO2 is a pollutant. COVID-19 came from nature. There was no fraud in the 2020 elections. White supremacy is the most dangerous thing facing our nation. There is no absolute truth. Get the jab and you won’t get the virus. They don’t need a frightened ...
Every once in a blue moon something happens in the world that shocks people, enough so that they remember what they were doing when they first heard the news. I had that situation last Sunday after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. It started out as a typical ...
To the editor: My wife and I recently spent two weeks in Europe. Here are a few observations from that trip: We visited Denmark, Germany and Austria, and passed through the mountains in Slovenia and Italy as well. Much like farmers in my area near Lafayette, record rainfalls have plagued ...
“Nothing tastes better than fresh green beans out of the garden. You can’t beat it,” Becky Sellner was quoted in a New Ulm Journal article on the start of the farmers’ market season. It’s those fresh green beans and other vegetable delights that make shopping at farmers’ markets ...
To the Editor: Apparently a would-be assassin resorted to political violence this past weekend when he tried to kill the former President. The left has spoken out ad nauseam against political violence, particularly that which has been part and parcel of the right’s messaging. It’s a ...