NEW ULM – Pam Krzmarzick, a certified tai chi and qi gong instructor at the New Ulm Wellness Collective, said she sees herself as more of a facilitator than a teacher. “I call myself a student too,” she said. “More so than a teacher.” Krzmarzick teaches tai chi and qi gong ...
NEW ULM — If you’re traveling down the KC Road in early spring and the temperatures just right, your olfactory senses might be treated to one of the best scents ever: maple syrup. Tyler Zollner and Lori Moldan have been producing their own brand of syrup known as “Sugar Shanty” syrup ...
NEW ULM — Silliness, secrets and plot twists are promised this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday as the State Street Theater Company presents Tom Smith’s “Drinking Habits”. Showtime will be 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday, with a matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday. General ...
NEW ULM — New Ulm High School will present “Newsies” from March 29-31 at the High School Auditorium. The musical is based on a strike by newspaper boys who have to go on strike because of Joseph Pulitzer, who set up rules that made it more difficult for the newsies to make ...
Photos by Susan Marie Studio In 1899, New York City got its news from an army of ragged orphans and runaways called newsies. One homeless New York City newsboy Jack Kelly (Joseph Goedtke) befriends two newcomers to his trade, Davey (Kyle McKeown) and Les (Addie Hoffmann), who also dream ...
SLEEPY EYE — Walking into Sleepy Eye Stained Glass, a visitor’s gaze is greeted by dozens of stained glass windows and hundreds of other colorful creations. Mike Mason, owner of the business and workshop, has been at it for over 40 years repairing or constructing hundreds of windows and ...
NEW ULM — The snow may still be three feet deep, but New Ulm Community Garden is already preparing for the green season. The Community Garden is located at 1915 S. Valley St. near the former Putting Green site and has been in operation for six years. The Community Garden has continued to ...
Mike Schauman has participated in just about every Sleepy Eye Sportsman’s Club Fishing Derby over more than three decades. A retired 3M employee, Schauman said he would ice fish the lake during the day when just about nobody else was on the lake. “It’s a lot better fishing when there ...
NEW ULM — ‘Blades on Broadway’, the New Ulm Figure Skating Club’s (NUFSC) 2019 ice show, will slide into the New Ulm Civic Center (NUCC) this coming Saturday and Sunday. Performance times will be at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday and also at 1 p.m. next Sunday. Tickets are $10 for ...
NEW ULM — Shortly after his wife Brandy joined CrossFit, Jeff Toomer knew that he too wanted to see what all the hype was about. So Toomer joined seven years ago in Mankato, and now he’s the co-owner/head coach at the New Ulm CrossFit location, a job that has enabled him to gain friends ...
NEW ULM — The Electric Distribution plant of the New Ulm Public Utilities Commission has kept the lights on in the community for decades. Providing electricity and power to over 7,200 customers, the plant produces about 5,000 megawatts of electricity every year. The plant has pumped out ...
New Ulm’s ‘underground city’/tunnels were commonly known as the ‘steam tunnels’ because the steam lines were placed inside the existing tunnels under the sidewalks of Minnesota Street. The tunnels, however, were not built for the steam lines. The tunnels were built long before the ...
NEW ULM — For over a decade it looked like it was game over for pinball machines. The classic game of arcades and bars had its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, but by the 21st century it seemed the last silver ball had finally slipped past the flippers and gone down the drain. However, as ...
NEW ULM — Minnesota Valley Lutheran is currently celebrating its 40th school year since the school was established in 1979. When Martin Luther Academy, the lutheran high school that shared the Dr. Martin Luther College campus in New Ulm, moved to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin to merge with ...
NEW ULM — While soccer has seen its participation numbers increase over the last 10-15 years at the local levels, the biggest problem might not be with coaches or players, but instead those who officiate the game. Like most sports, the number of qualified officials to supervise the game ...
Looking back at 2018, The Journal staff found that one recurring theme for the year was weather, from late winter/early spring blizzard, like the Friday the 13th storm in April (above and right) that buried New Ulm and its vehicles in a blanket of snow. Heavy rains later in the year kept river ...
Nora Unitarian Universalist Church was awarded a $15,000 grant in June for urgent structural needs including belfry (bell tower) and window repairs. Recognized as a significant Nordic Heritage Site by Partners for Sacred Places, a grant stipulation is that the church raise an equal or greater ...
Walking into one of Christian Lilienthal’s barns, you can see and hear a variety of animals scurry about. Some of them stare at you. Others even talk to you. “Hello, hello,” say macaws, sounding quite human-like. Then they screech rather loudly. Lemurs, native to Madagascar, appear to ...
NEW ULM — The Tomahawk Conference celebrates 75 years for boys’ basketball this season, leaving plenty of memories and milestones along the way. The conference first formed in 1944 as the “Tomahawk League”, borrowing the name from the old Tomahawk baseball league. The initial seven ...
NEW ULM — Even at the age of 70, Wills Runck finds himself busy on the tennis courts around the city of New Ulm. And even though the winter season is coming up, Runck gives tennis lessons for the New Ulm Tennis Association at the New Ulm Park and Recreation Center and various tennis courts ...