SLEEPY EYE -- Sleepy Eye Public School Facilities Manager Craig Murphy gets excited when he talks about using a new robot to stripe and paint school athletic fields. “The (Pro X Tiny Mobile) robot has been an absolute time and money saver with almost flawless end results on all our fields ...
Here are few of my favorite recent reads. Library staff would be happy to help you place requests on these or any other titles. If you’d like to place your own request, visit www.newulmlibrary.org and choose Library Catalog. All the Belles are called back to Bellerton Academy following its 150th anniversary. A discovery was made on the finishing school grounds during the celebration. As each woman returns, they will have to reckon with their shared past and the once-tight ties of sisterhood. The Belles is an atmospheric, eerie suspense novel with a strong sense of place and time. ...
Photo 1: You don’t to need read any Sherlock Holmes books to know this location, but it would help. Photo 2: A familiar hand-painted sign seen by many tourists to New Ulm. Photo 3: Just in time for Reformation Day, the hand that wrote the 95 Theses. Photo 4: Where does this sidewalk end? ...
They call it “the witch’s house.” In the four years since Merlyn and Jeanne Boesch began putting the pumpkins, spooks and witches up outside their home at 520 8. Broadway, the house has become an extra Halloween treat for New Ulm residents. THEY COME from all over the town to trick-or-treat at the house or just to look. They’ve even come from as far as the statehouse to admire it. A state representative from Rochester, Mrs. Boesch recalls, once noticed the decorated house while driving through New Ulm. Is so impressed him that he stopped to ask if he could take a picture of ...
The first Sunday in November is the time to turn your clocks back an hour. This year, you might want to look back a century, too. The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris ended in November 1925, making art deco, the style it exhibited (not to mention named), officially antique at 100 years old. Its appeal is still going strong; dealers, decorators, and trend watchers have noticed a surge of interest in art deco in recent years. The hundredth anniversary of the exhibition may be a factor, or maybe it’s just that the sleek lines and geometric ...
It’s less than a week away from Halloween. I loved the night as a child. I loved all the preparation that went into finding or making the perfect costume for trick-or-treating each year. As a young mother I think I had even more fun dressing my children for their school parties and a night of scouring the neighborhood Halloween night looking for the house that gave out full size candy bars. I remember reading at least one spooky, or not so spooky, story before bed each night the week before Halloween. Here are some favorite picks for spooky, sometimes kooky, Halloween reads Room on ...
