Bees and butterflies can be seen hopping around native prairie plants in Ken Varland’s large pollinator garden behind his residence on the west edge of New Ulm. “I spent a career, 39 years with a couple state agencies restoring prairie like this,” said Varland, a retired DNR regional ...

A month after closing his printing business, Rick Apitz is still trying to figure out what it means to be retire after nearly 50 years of being self employed. For five decades, Apitz ran a photography studio and printing business in New Ulm. For a time he even owned a frame gallery. On June 4, ...

NEW ULM – What started as a Christmas card became a tradition that spans 67 years and 18 photos. Mary (Marti) Borstad, Carolyn Marti Smith, Steve Marti, Jean (Marti) Wenk, Sue Marti, Joe Marti, and Mike Marti were kids when the first photo was taken, as a Christmas card to be given to ...

This year’s Bavarian Blast will feature the usual celebrations, with music, parades, and the appearance of New Ulm’s chapter of the Narren. But this year’s festival is a special one for the Narren of New Ulm, as the group will be celebrating its 35th anniversary. With their iconic wooden ...

JANESVILLE — In 1970, four ambitious musicians put together the band AZBY in New Ulm, broadcasting their musical talents out of a garage on the north end of town. That band, consisting of Rod Scheitel, Tom Bauer, Rick Christiansen and Brad Anderson, started taking gigs after that and ...

After retiring as a Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M) production worker, Terry Blume became interested in creating crafty, do-it-yourself outdoor designs including solar lights around her New Ulm residence. She said she found solar light design ideas online. The front and back of ...