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Sertoma Club serves up Santa in the Summer

NEW ULM — Living up to its mission, the New Ulm Sertoma Club served up Santa Claus, an elf, live music, sweet corn, burgers, hot dogs, brats, chicken and all the corn you could eat at the Brown County Fairgrounds Tuesday. Event proceeds are the biggest fundraiser of the year for the Sertoma ...

BCHS holds Heritage Chores Camp at Kiesling House

NEW ULM — The Brown County Historical Society held its Heritage Chores Camp last Thursday at the Kiesling House on Minnesota Street in New Ulm. The camp teaches children who have completed kindergarten through fifth grade what a typical day was like in the 1800s. Activities included ...

Songwriter tells MN history through music

NEW ULM — Songwriter Doug Noble presented Legends, Heroes, Ghosts and Gangsters: The History of Minnesota in Music at the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame last month. Noble created the project with hall of fame board member Neal Bond to bring Minnesota's rich history to life in a musical ...

NU woman dies in Highway 15 crash

NEW ULM — A 29-year-old New Ulm woman died in a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 15 about five miles south of New Ulm Wednesday, according to the Minnesota State Patrol. Guadalupe Maria Miramontes of New Ulm was driving a 2016 Jeep Compass southbound on Highway 15 that collided with a 2019 Ford F250 driven northbound on Highway 15 by Hunter David Grathwohl, 21, of Fairmont. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. Both drivers wore seat belts. Airbags deployed in both vehicles. Assisting agencies included New Ulm Police and Fire ...

MN Gladiolus Society brings one-of-kind show to NU

NEW ULM – The Minnesota Gladiolus Society celebrated America’s 250th birthday during its Brown County Fair show last weekend. The New Ulm Civic Center south arena was filled with 359 individual gladiolus spikes and 70 gladiolus arrangements all based around the theme of American ...

Helping make memories

NEW ULM — Woodstone Senior Living and Orchard Hill raised $4,912 for the Alzheimer's Association at their second annual fundraiser Monday. ​The total topped last year's amount despite lower attendance. ​"Our attendance was lower than last year, but the support was even greater, we ...