Staff photo by Fritz Busch Sleepy Eye Holiday Lights in Motion light up the night sky at Sportsman's Park on Sleepy Eye Lake Friday. The lights continue nightly through Jan. 1, 2026.

NEW ULM – St. Mary’s Church hosted the 37th New Ulm Community Friends Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Volunteers are still tallying up the final number of meals served, but Community Friends co-chairman Les Schultz said they had planned for 1,500 meals this year, which is a little higher ...

NEW ULM — Vicki Pieser never set out to write a book about Brown County’s Jewish community. “I was just collecting little stories about people,” she said. Over time, those stories grew into a full manuscript, now published as Jews in Germantown: The Diaspora in Brown County, ...

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized accepting a bid on a new 69kV breaker for the city’s Center Street Substation. This new breaker will replace a 60-year-old oil-filled breaker. Utility Planning and Development Engineer Dan Pirsig said this was the last of ...

NEW ULM — Community Thanksgiving dinners are planned in New Ulm, Sleepy Eye, Winthrop and Mankato Thursday. New Ulm The 37th Annual New Ulm Community Friends Thanksgiving Dinner is set for 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the lower level of St. Mary’s Church, 417 S. Minnesota St. The ...

NEW ULM — Even a steady Tuesday morning rain couldn’t slow the holiday preparations in German Park, where volunteers, sponsors, and community groups came together to transform the grounds for a celebration that will last until the new year. Members of the Downtown Action Team, including ...