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Time for an Upgrade

Lifestyle Columns February 11, 2023

Remember the good old days of using a card catalog? You’d search along the cabinet drawers for the right heading, then you pulled it open to reveal a long stack of index cards. Flipping through them to find what you were looking for and then where it was located, you took off through the library’s stacks in search of the book you wanted. Actually it was both very time consuming and took up a lot of space. Any time books were added to the collection or weeded from it, the cards would need to be updated. Depending on the style of the cabinet, you might even have to go through the cards ...

Senior Meals

Lifestyle Columns February 11, 2023

MONDAY Egg bake with sausage, overn baked potatoes, carrots, applesauce, coffee cake, milk. TUESDAY Meatloaf, baked potato with sour cream, blushing pears, dinner roll, Valentine’s Day dessert, milk. WEDNESDAY Past in meat sauce, romane salad with dressing, pineapple chunks, bread stick, dessert, milk. THURSDAY Roast turkey w/gravy, mashed potatoes, california/normandy vegetables, bread, dessert, milk. FRIDAY Baked ham w/sauce, scalloped potatoes, peas and carrots, dinner roll, dessert, milk. The New Ulm Community Center is OPEN for in person dining. Call 359-2243 ...

A passion for knitting

Lifestyle Feature February 11, 2023

A craft that can appeal to all ages and skills, knitting is considered a healthy hobby. It’s meditative, creative, has been known to reduce blood pressure and heart rate and help prevent stress-related illnesses. “It’s a great hobby. It can be very therapeutic. It’s very calming,” ...

Inventors have tinkered with robots for centuries

Lifestyle Columns February 11, 2023

Robots may sound like current cutting-edge technology or science-fiction dreams of the future, but automated mechanical creatures have captured people’s imaginations for centuries. Animals and music were always popular themes. Legends say that King Solomon surrounded his throne with mechanical animals, including lions that would raise their paws and roar when he approached and birds that would descend to give him his crown and a scroll. Hero of Alexandria, a mathematician from the first century, wrote a treatise called “On Automaton-Making” with designs for a water basin with ...

Gotta Dance!

Lifestyle Feature February 4, 2023

This Sunday, the NFL Pro Bowl starts in Las Vegas, Nevada and New Ulm native Crysten Glawe will have one of the best seats at the game. Glawe will attend as a cheerleader, representing the Washington Commanders. She has worked as a professional cheerleader in Washington, D.C. for several ...

Country crafters’ work can bring big prices

Lifestyle Columns February 4, 2023

Famous names add to the value of an antique, even if we know more about the maker’s work than about the maker. Few names of antique folk artists and country crafters are known today, and even less is known about the people behind them. John Boyer, who made seed chests in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the mid- to late 19th century, is one of these crafters. This seed chest, attributed to Boyer, sold for an impressive $28,320 at a Conestoga auction. The chest features grain painting, a popular decoration at the time. Grain painting meant painting an inexpensive material, such as ...