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Nicollet City Council approves rezoning

The Nicollet City Council approved the rezoning of parcels on the northeast side of Nicollet, Monday. The rezoned properties are a mixed use of industrial and commercial. The parcels rezoned were the northern half of four parcels. All the parcels are located north of 2nd Street, south of 3rd ...

Treasures found at Civic Center garage sale

NEW ULM – Kid’s clothing, shoes, hats, comic books, Pokémon collectables, lunch boxes, Roller blades, typewriters, a knitting machine, giant popcorn tub, five dollar box of hangers—vendors sold a huge assortment of goods at the Annual Spring Civic Center Garage Sale hosted by New Ulm’s ...

Tax-forfeited land sale in Springfield approved

NEW ULM — Brown County commissioners unanimously approved the sale of tax-forfeited land in Springfield Tuesday. The City of Springfield requested the sale of the property at 124 Park Avenue North that was forfeited in July 2017 to the City of Springfield for $500 plus applicable fees, due ...

Brown board OKs Mound Creek Park improvements

NEW ULM — As Mound Creek County Park opening day approaches, Brown County commissioners authorized the purchase of swimming area buoys, rope and rope floats Tuesday. The $2,166.52 purchase includes three buoys, 500 feet of poly rope and 48 rope floats to mark out the park swimming area. Most ...

Chief Sleepy Eye monument and sculpture stand tall

SLEEPY EYE — A replica of a painting of Chief Sleepy Eye will disappear from the front of Sleepy Eye High School next fall as well as the mascot from school athletic team uniforms, but a monument and sculpture will continue to stand tall downtown. A monument in honor of Chief Sleepy Eye ...

Indivisible organization holds empty chair town hall

ST. PETER - Members of the New Ulm and St. Peter/Greater Mankato area chapters of Indivisible, a grassroots movement, held an Empty Chair Town Hall meeting Saturday at Minnesota Square Park Pavilion in St. Peter. Event chair Marian Broida said they invited Representative Brad Finstad to the ...