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An old fashioned app: Farm calculators

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“But when are we going to use this in real life?” That question comes up in math classes, much to the chagrin of many teachers. It’s not just a classroom cliche to say that math is everywhere, from planning a budget to decorating a room. Even careers that aren’t directly connected to math require plenty of it. Take agriculture. Today, an online search can bring up farm calculator apps designed to help determine, for example, how much fertilizer a field requires, fuel efficiency of farm equipment, or predictions for product yields. Farm calculators have existed long before apps, ...

Exchanging ideas, learning in Germany

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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 ...

Best Nonfiction Books of 2025 (so Far)

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There are many “Best Books of 2025 So Far” lists out right now, so I chose some of the top picks to share with you. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow (921 Twain) • Amazon’s Best Books of 2025 So Far Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton (599.324 Dalton) • New York Times Best of the Year (So Far) • Spotify’s Best Biography & Memoir of the Year So Far There is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone (362.592 Goldsto) • New York Times Best Books of the Year (So Far) Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston 1777-1780 by ...

GFW school together at last

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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 ...

Cloth dolls more than a toy, a piece of history

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Labor Day is a good time to reflect on the history of workers in America. One of the most interesting periods came during the Great Depression with the Works Progress Administration, later called the Work Projects Administration, from 1935 to 1943. As part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, artists were employed to work on federally funded projects. Some of these projects are pieces by great artists of the 20th century, like photographs by Dorothea Lange, sculptures by Augusta Savage, or murals by Grant Wood. Others, often collected as folk art today, were utilitarian ...

Richard and Sharon Seeboth

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Richard and Sharon Seeboth Richard and Sharon Seeboth celebrate 50th wedding anniversary. The couple married Aug. 23, 1975 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.