On Aug. 3, 40 athletes were crowned national champions at the 2025 USATF Outdoor and Para National Championships and were selected to advance to the 2025 Para Athletics World Championships this September in New Delhi, India. Among them was Courtland native and 1999 New Ulm High School ...
This year’s summer reading program theme was Color Our World. I want to take a moment to thank all the parents, caregivers, children, and teens who participated this year. I would also like to thank the library staff. They did an excellent job helping to make the program happen throughout a very busy summer. We recorded 1,115 people in attendance at the 48 programs scheduled for this summer. Visitors completed 1,130 in-house scavenger hunts, and 374 crafts during the eight weeks of the program. At the end of the program, finishers received a free book, a grand prize ticket, temporary ...
The environmentalist movement popularized the saying “Reduce, reuse, recycle” in the 1970s, but the sentiment goes back much farther than that. Historically, people avoided buying new items to save money, or simply because said new items were not as readily available to purchase as they are today. Reusing and recycling materials was done out of necessity, too, but the effect of saving resources remains the same. Rug making is one of the best examples. Throughout the 19th century, American families had many ways of transforming fabric scraps into useful rugs. The earliest were ...
REDWOOD FALLS — Operating and promoting a race track isn’t a foreign concept to Velvet Dostal. It involves careful planning, community involvement, plenty of driving — in more ways than one — and many sleepless nights. Despite all of that, after helping bring Redwood Speedway back ...
The 2025 University of Minnesota Extension Service Brown County Farm Family of the Year is in a class by itself compared to most farms in southern Minnesota. A spark of inspiration at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair led Stark Township farmers Elizabeth and Craig Fischer to become curious ...
August 11 is Mountain Day in Japan. It is a very new holiday, first officially observed in 2016, but mountains have held extremely important roles in Japanese art and culture for much longer. Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest mountain, is one of the country’s most celebrated sights. Associated ...
