NEW ULM – The downtown Christmas decorations on Minnesota Street have been a part of the city’s history for decades. The current garland decoration began in 1933, but downtown New Ulm was celebrating the Christmas season from much earlier. In November 1914, the New Ulm Review newspaper ...
NEW ULM — Martin Luther College football coach Mark Stein has it pretty good these days. The head coach just wrapped up another successful season, leading the Knights to a 9-2 record overall and a second straight NCAA Division III tournament football appearance after winning the Upper Midwest ...
NEW ULM — One of the most well-known, classic animated television specials comes to life on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” hits the State Street Theater Co. (SSTC) stage in New Ulm. The first showing will take place at 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29. There will then be a ...
—————— Due to declining numbers of adolescents in the program, Brown County Teen Court will be converted to a traditional juvenile diversion program in January 2020. One of the longest-running programs in Southern Minnesota, Brown County Teen Court has handled more than 1,000 ...
NEW ULM — Make sure your ruby slippers and a bucket of water are by your side because the Wicked Witch of the West is on the prowl. New Ulm High School will present its latest play, “The Wizard of Oz,” opening Thursday, Nov. 14 in the high school’s auditorium. ...
NEW ULM — Next weekend Cathedral High School’s theatre department will be all about dice and dames as they perform “Guys and Dolls.” “Guys and Dolls” is a Tony Award-winning Broadway play, based on short stories by Damon Runyon about the street characters in New York. It was first ...
NEW ULM — With winter season coming up, now is the time to start planning for exercise classes at the New Ulm Recreation Center. Most of the winter sessions begin their sign-up soon and Sandy Bromley, who is the Aquatic and Fitness Coordinator, said that it’s important to set small goals ...
For those looking to get into the Halloween spirit this October, there are several spooky activities and events in Brown County this year. Whether that means going to a haunted house, checking out a movie or exploring a “Wacky World” of fun and horror, there promises to be plenty to keep ...
Holy Trinity Cathedral, a local landmark with its clock tower and colorful, ornate interior parallels the history of New Ulm. In 1854, German immigrants traveled from Fort Snelling to where the Minnesota and Cottonwood rivers met to start the settlement of New Ulm. In the fall of 1856, ...
NEW ULM — For Lori Howard, climbing some of the world’s highest mountains is just the type of challenge she’s looking for. In August, Howard climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with her two daughters — completing one of her life goals. “I had always said that when I turned 40 I was going to ...
NEW ULM — The Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth has a height of 226 feet and length of 501 feet. Over the last month, local lobbyist Jerome Sellner has been working on shrinking it down to fit on a coffee table. Sellner did not have a specific scale in mind when he began designing a miniature of ...
NEW ULM — Grab your popcorn, pull up a chair and strap in for two days of films and fun as the first ever New Ulm Film Festival (NUFF) takes place Friday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Sept. 28, at The Grand Center for Arts & Culture and State Street Theater. Concocted by the New Ulm Film ...
SPRINGFIELD — As a longtime wrestling coach, Springfield’s Todd Bertram had a vision one day of breaking away from the co-operatives that Springfield had been paired with and starting a program of its own. So Bertram looked at the wrestling numbers at the younger levels and started a plan ...
Warren Cook of Sleepy Eye still remembers working cleanup with his twin brother Warren at the Del Monte plant during the summer of his high school and college years. “That was 50 years ago last summer. I was thankful (human resources employee) Gerald “Boomer” Plahn gave me the chance to ...
NEW ULM — For Michael Wu, a videographer on Martin Luther College’s public relations student photography team, connecting people through a visual narrative is a chief reason why he lives behind the lens. “One of the advantages of being a student photographer is my job is to capture ...
NEW ULM—The German Park Amphitheater has been a part of the New Ulm community for over 20 years, but its future is uncertain. The amphitheater was first constructed in the mid-1990s following the closure of the municipal swimming pool in German Park. In June 1991, the New Ulm City Council ...
WINTHROP — Former Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop standout girls’ basketball player Halley Busse recently returned from a trip to Brazil with the 2019 USA Division 2 Women’s Basketball Team. While there, she picked up memories, wins and continued to improve her game while taking in a different ...
NEW ULM — Bethel Balge has always had a passion for performing music. As a long-time piano player, she’s figured out how to turn that passion into something that unites music lovers all over the City of New Ulm. Balge, who teaches music history and gives piano lessons at both Martin ...
A steady stream of clients walked in and out of the Sleepy Eye Area Food Shelf on a late Monday afternoon. In the basement of the municipal building on Second Avenue Northwest, where the Sleepy Eye Police Station was formerly located, the food shelf shelves were looking a little bare as the ...
NEW ULM — Sid’s Signs On Broadway completed and sent off one of its largest projects to date on July 17, but this time, it has wheels. Sid De Leo, owner of Sid’s Signs, said the Peterbilt tanker truck is one of the largest vehicles they’ve spruced up with a vinyl graphics-job, and ...