The New Ulm School District is more than $420 below the state average in cost-per pupil unit in education, according to a report released by the state Department of Education Monday. The report listed the state average cost per pupil-unit in 1974-75 at $1,442,while the New Ulm-Hanska district ...

Photos and story by John Lampinen Strong winds blew through the New Ulm area and one of the victims was this tree that used to stand on German Street between First and Second N. After it began to lean, police were called to move autos out of the area. Later, city street workers helped the ...

Before joining 130,000 others in a desperate flight to the United States almost a year ago, Tung Van Nguyen had a bright Military future as a captain in the Vietnamese navy. Now he’s in New Ulm with his family of six, working at Kraft Foods Co., and thinking about what he’s going to be ...

TWO TEAMS from New Ulm will fly to Denver Monday to bowl in the WIBC national tournament. They are part of three chartered planeloads from Minnesota. The group will return Friday. Ann Meidl, left,and Bonnie Neumann, captain of the New Ulm teams, showed their special national tourney bowling ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played in shaping the nation before, during and after the Revolutionary War. This week we stop in ...

NEW ULM – At the time of the American Revolution, the United States consisted of 13 colonies located along the eastern cost of North American, but Europeans had already begun expanding further west as early as the 1600s. Some of this expansion was related to exploration, but for others it was ...