SLEEPY EYE – A Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) open house for a 25-mile Highway 4 improvement project from Sleepy Eye to St. James Wednesday featured a request for flashing red lights at an all-way stop in Leavenworth. The $18.8 million project with a 10-ton highway, bridge, ...

SLEEPY EYE — The Sleepy Eye Public School Board unanimously approved a Senior Class trip request to Florida again, Wednesday. Action came on a motion by board member Casey Coulson, seconded by Joleen Dittbenner for a March 26-29 trip to Orlando, Fl. Projected cost per student is $1,350 each, ...

NICOLLET — Superintendent Robin Courrier informed the Nicollet Public School Board at their Wednesday meeting that NPS and the Nicollet Education Association have reached a tentative agreement for the 2024-25 school year. “Due to the terms agreed for necessary salary improvements, and ...

NEW ULM – The opening line of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” begins with the line “April is the cruelest month.” April may be the cruelest month, but it is also National Poetry Month and the Grand Center for Arts and Culture partnered with New Ulm High School creative writing ...

NEW ULM — With six new acts entering the hallowed halls of the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame (MMHF), the museum will be hosting its 33rd annual Induction Ceremony and Awards Banquet on Friday, April 19. The event will be held at the New Ulm Conference Center, with a social hour at 5 p.m., a ...

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Baseball Association (NUBA) brought its vision of honoring New Ulm’s baseball history to the New Ulm Park and Rec Commission for discussion at their work session Monday. NUBA proposed building a history center along the third base line north of the bleachers and on ...