Editor’s note:  It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. In many ...

Martin Luther Academy of New Ulm trounced Sleepy Eye High School 86-37 in a girls dual track meet Monday at Johnson Field here. Luther is 3-0 in dual meets but finished far down the list in the Winthrop Relays. The Rams have another chance in a multi-school meet when they host the MLA ...

Eighteen residents of the Fourth Ward spoke their pieces Thursday at Turner Hall as the City Council continued its hearings on what the community wants in recreation. Most popular was an indoor swimming pool. “We should be ashamed to bus our children to St. James and Mankato to swim and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Shirley Lindquist spent the night thinking about a dead 14-year-old she doesn’t know. It is because that boy died Friday, Mrs. Lindquist points out, that her son Steven was given a new life Saturday. AFTER WAITING four months, Steven, 10, has a new kidney. The word that a ...

Mayor Carl Wyczawski wields a shovel during the planting of an Arbor Day tree in front of the Municipal Building. The Friday planting represented New Ulm’s part in the American Revolution Bicentennial Tree Program. The Minnesota State Horticultural Society, working with the Minnesota ...

Each year New Ulm’s Rotarians sponsor students from our local high schools to attend the annual Rotary youth conference in St. Paul. I felt you would be interested in hearing first hand from New Ulm’s representatives: Dan Foley of Cathedral High and Dave Mildenberg of New Ulm High,both ...