For many, the German Park Garden is a crown jewel in New Ulm’s park system but few people know of the work that goes into maintaining it. Earlier this month New Ulm Gardening Club received a peek behind the scenes. During a special meeting in German Park, the garden caretaker Mary Roufs gave ...

NEW ULM — After a whirlwind romance and decades of happy marriage, New Ulm native Susan Weissmann-Huehn had to figure out how to put the pieces back together after her husband’s passing. As the owner of a fixer-upper farmhouse in Northfield, this was both emotional and literal. “A ...

NEW ULM — After placing his ball on the tee, Ethan Schmidt looks ahead at the fairway and focuses on a tree in the distance. He then takes out his favorite COBRA driver and gets into position before hitting the ball, which now rarely fades. After a solid drive, Schmidt settles in and ...

When the Redwood Falls amateur baseball team left the Tomahawk East League after the 2013 season, the league was left with an open spot for a new team. Ten years later, the team that replaced them, the Courtland Cubs, are playing in the Amateur Baseball State Tournament for the second time in ...

A Sleepy Eye native is helping save the planet, fighting global marine pollution by leading beach cleanup efforts and making jewelry from single-use plastic collected in Thailand. Reclaimed is a project by traditional tattoo artist Liz Kolbe. She spends about half the year on the remote, ...

When going to the movies, people typically think about movie stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, or Brad Pitt, but in New Ulm, John Pfeiffer may be the most familiar face at the cinema. Pfeiffer has been working at movie theaters for more than 40 years doing cleaning and other ...