NEW ULM — Musicians performed polka music on a semi trailer stage for more than 5 hours Friday in front of the B and L Bar on Minnesota Street in a tribute to the late Smiley Wiltscheck. Stories about the man who lived for playing polka music were plentiful. He’d play on a moment’s ...

NEW ULM – Roughly 50 riders on 38 motorcycles cruised into New Ulm for lunch at the American Legion Friday. The stopover in New Ulm was part of the Minnesota American Legion Riders motorcycle run for the Minnesota Veteran Assistance Fund (MVAF), also known as Fund 85. Fund 85 was created as ...

NEW ULM – A new wave of policy changes from the state legislature and a potential change to space rental charges were approved and considered at Thursday’s School Board meeting. The drug and alcohol testing policy was changed to address cannabis individually, as laws regarding legal sale ...

NEW ULM — A couple formerly of New Ulm were among the early Crazy Days weekend shoppers in downtown New Ulm Friday. Mark and Brenda Wiger of Minneapolis and a friend, Michelle Blaeser of St. Paul shopped at New Ulm’s Own fair trade store, 212 Minnesota St. N. Blaeser bought a hand-made ...

NEW ULM — The Schell’s Hobo Band performed with as much gusto as ever in front of a good sized crowd at New Ulm Night Out and Concert in the Park in German Park Thursday. The band performed marches and its usual repertoire as people listened from the amphitheater, consumed a variety of ...

NEW ULM – State Street Theater Company’s next play is a biblical musical with a first-time director. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tells the bible story of Joseph, his coat of many colors, and his jealous brothers. This telling is based on the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd ...