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New Ulm actor feels at home in Fargo

NEW ULM — As someone who grew up in New Ulm, actor David Rysdahl felt right at home in the new season of the FX crime-drama Fargo. Rysdahl plays Wayne Lyon, a devoted and loving husband and father who is caught between his family he loves and his overbearing rich mother who doesn’t ...

NU Public Utilities safe found in Olmsted Co.

NEW ULM — The discovery of a New Ulm Public Utilties (NUPUC) safe along the side of an Olmsted County road led authorities to uncover several items had been stolen from PUC building over the long Thanksgiving weekend, including vehicles, a trailer, boat motor and numerous electronic ...

Stadheim’s the name, engineering’s his game

NEW ULM — Having worked for the city of New Ulm for seventeen years in three different capacities, Stadheim has seen and done it all. Stadheim first considered being an engineer after advice from a high school calculus teacher. It was what he chose when he first enrolled at South Dakota ...

Rural nursing homes seek equal treatment

NEW ULM — Rural nursing homes battled during last year’s legislative session to get more funding out of the state legislature. The end-of-session allocation gave some relief to facilities in danger of going out of business, but didn’t address the long term inequities toward nursing homes ...

One comment heard at budget/levy public hearing

NEW ULM — One public comment was heard at the Brown County 2024 proposed county budget/levy (Truth in Taxation) public hearing in the Brown County Courthouse courtroom Tuesday. Josh Boelter of rural New Ulm said his proposed 2024 residential property taxes are up 48.24% from 2023. “It’s ...

Ninja Warrior course planned for New Ulm

NEW ULM — A Ninja Warrior course in New Ulm? That’s the plan from St. Paul’s Lutheran School and the Optimist Club. The project idea was presented to St. Paul’s principal Pete Markgraf four years ago by someone in the playground industry. Markgraf said after looking into the project, ...