NEW ULM — Do you have a green thumb? Does landscaping your yard sound appealing? If so mark Thursday, June 28th on your calendar for the annual Brown County Master Gardeners’ Gardenfest Tour. The tour will start at 4:30 p.m. and go through 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. Garden site information is ...
NEW ULM — Whether you’re a seasoned shooter or a young beginner, the Sioux Valley Gun Club in New Ulm offers those interested plenty of opportunity to get out there on the range this summer. The club is more than happy to help shooters of all ages get started having fun this summer in a ...
NICOLLET — Sean and Travis Murphy grew up with the sport of football. Their dad, Tom Murphy, is the longtime coach of the program who has given the community a 9-man football identity as a state powerhouse. Tom Murphy, who recently took over as the head football coach at Nicollet, is ...
Sergeant First Class (E-7) Celeste Bischel maintained a family tradition, to say the least, serving 40 years in the Army Reserve. Her voice crackles with emotion when she realizes her military time ends soon. A Winona High School student, she had a brother in the Army and Navy and her father ...
NEW ULM — A little of 1969 will be coming to New Ulm this Father’s Day as the first of an annual music festival raising money for Eden “Bliss” Kalk. Starting at noon Sunday, June 17, Bliss Stock will fill the Turner Hall lawn with music, activities and families the headlining band ...
NEW ULM — Filmmaking comes in all shapes and sizes. For the last decade, local filmmaker Emory Moody has been working in the smaller-scale film style known as stop-motion animation. Moody had dabbled in all kinds of animated films, but stop-motion is his preferred medium. “I sculpt better ...
NEW ULM — CRUSH 80/20 Nutrition is coming up on its one-year anniversary on June 14 and has seen positive growth while making an impact on the New Ulm community and beyond along the way. CRUSH is an Herbalife nutrition club that allows people the opportunity for a healthier way of living. ...
NEW ULM — Six years ago, Kory Kettner had a plan to improve basketball in Southern Minnesota. The plan led to the birth of the MN Rise, a program for youth basketball players at various age levels to better their game for not only themselves, but for the schools they represent. Today, ...
SLEEPY EYE — Operation Iraqi Freedom war veteran Gary Kuebler doesn’t let the loss of both of his kidneys get the best of him. Not even dialysis three days a week can stop him from working, maintaining his physical fitness and doing other things he enjoys like visiting his family and ...
If you’re like most gardeners, I know what you’re thinking; soil doesn’t need the nutrients; the plants do. So how does feeding the soil help our plants? There is another world below the soil surface that most home gardeners don’t fully understand. Yet soil scientists tell us that in ...
NEW ULM — A local youth has found a new calling in competitive duck calling. Anton Freiderich, 13, recently started competing in duck call competitions, and has been learning how to make the hunting instrument. “I took him duck hunting once and he started blowing on the call and he blew ...
NEW ULM — Dean Tessmer does not look sick. In fact, for a 61-year-old he appears to be in great shape. But Tessmer has been battling Stage 4 Prostate Cancer for eight years, a battle he plans to keep fighting. His cancer has progressed to the point where he cannot be cured, but he can ...
NEW ULM — Giddy up! The New Ulm Middle School would like to invite ya’ll to a wisecracking, slapstick western spoof called Saga of the Golden Horseshoe. The play will be performed at the high school auditorium at 7 p.m. on April 13 and 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on April 14. The cast is ...
NEW ULM — Even with the long winter this year, summer is eventually coming, although it doesn’t feel like it. The New Ulm Park and Rec Department once again has a variety of activities for the Summer of 2018 for people of all ages throughout the community. Summer registration begins at ...
Editor’s note: Tom and Marcy Macaulay are former New Ulm residents. Tom was the New Ulm assistant city manager for several years before he and Marcy decided to join the Peace Corps. Here is a report on their most recent assignment. For the past year and a half we have been living in a small ...
NEW ULM — Everyone has a favorite game, and these days the varieties of games are as unique as the people playing. When you live where the outside temperature is below freezing for several months of the year, finding an indoor board game you love is important. In New Ulm, multiple groups ...
NEW ULM — The previous two weekends featured the MLC Lutheran Invitational Tournament of Champions in New Ulm at Martin Luther College. The tournament featured 56 teams from 38 schools, with Division’s 3 and 4 (boys and girls) playing from Feb. 16-18 and Division’s 1 and 2 (coed teams) ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The 2017 NFL season was a big one for Springfield native Tyler Marz. The offensive lineman got his first taste of NFL life after he was picked up off the Tennessee Titans’ practice squad by the L.A. Chargers in September of 2017. He was on the team for seven weeks ...
Boys, girls, young and old, there is something for everyone to enjoy in “Happily Ever After.” The New Ulm Figure Skating Club’s annual ice show features classic princesses, “Cinderella,” “Snow White” and “Beauty and the Beast” to the more modern favorites “Princess and The ...
NEW ULM — Out of chaos comes learning, creativity and collaboration in the Jefferson Elementary STEM Lab. An acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, the STEM class presents students with one hour every seven days of problem solving and collaboration. “The goal is to have ...