NEW ULM — Menagerie alumni, friends, family and supporters hugged each other, talked of the good old days and sang their favorite oldies in harmony at the New Ulm Country Club Saturday. Ted Wirtz of Carver, the son of original Menagerie director Bob Wirtz of Florida, said the sing along was ...

BROWN COUNTY — Deaths have outnumbered births in Brown County in recent years, according to data from Brown County Public Health (BCPH) and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). There were 258 more deaths than births in Brown County from 2020 through 2023. Brown County data showed 328 ...

SLEEPY EYE — Dawg Haus Bar & Grill owners Geneva and John Bendix recently requested the Sleepy Eye City Council amend city code to allow Sunday liquor sales to begin before noon. The city council approved the first reading of such an ordinance Tuesday, motion by Councilor Nate Stevermer. ...

The Nicollet City Council on Monday gave the personnel committee the go ahead to pursue a new maintenance employee. During the meeting, it was announced that Josh Anderson will be leaving the position on March 9. He has worked for the city since 2007. The committee members — Councilman ...

REDWOOD FALLS — The FBI arrested a 40-year-old Redwood Falls man at his workplace Wednesday for illegally possessing ammunition. Following an FBI year-long anti-terrorist probe, Andrew David Munsinger was arrested on federal charges. He has prior methamphetamine sale convictions that bar him ...

WINNEBAGO — Winnebago Mayor Scott Robertson and his son Jacob Robertson were arrested Thursday following a drug raid on three Winnebago properties. The Robertsons were transported to the Faribault County Jail for alleged cultivation of marijuana offenses, according to a South Central Drug ...