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Lifestyle Feature

A little more pop and hip hop at East High

Cathedral High School students are preparing to bring “High School Musical: On Stage!” to State Street Theater Co. Oct. 10-12. The production features a cast of more than 40 students from grades 7 through 12 and is directed by Michael J. Koester. “High School Musical: On Stage!” is a ...

Once in a lifetime vehicle sale

On Saturday, Sept. 13, Joshua Helget of New Ulm sold his hot rod, a modified 1935 Ford Pickup, to George Moehring III and his family. Helget said the Moehring family are the only people he would sell the vehicle to, because technically their name was on it—literally. Long before Helget ...

Stepping into a new home

Since beginning in New Ulm in 1996, New Ulm’s Just for Kix (JFK) — a youth dance class organization — has had no permanent place to hold its classes. “We’ve been all over the community in different locations, really needing a place that we can be at permanently,” Molly Reinhart, ...

Enters show racing runs in the family

NEW ULM — Some things just run in the family. For the father-son duo of Ben and Broddy Enter, two of those things are their 2,500-pound SportMod race cars. While no stranger to racing, Ben Enter returned to dirt oval tracks around Minnesota this summer after an 11-year absence to get ...

Exchanging ideas, learning in Germany

A June visit to Aachen, Germany with the Region Nine Development Commission (RNDC) proved to be a great learning and idea exchange experience for New Ulm members Dave Borchert, Andrea Boettger and Derek Nelson. Borchert has many titles including New Ulm Police Chief and Emergency Management ...

GFW school together at last

It is back to school time for districts across the state, for the Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop (GFW) elementary students, they are not going back but forward into a new building. In April 2023, the GFW school board approved the construction of a K-12 school at 1157 E 13th Street Gibbon. After ...