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Sue Ullery wins Ward 4 write-in election

NEW ULM – New Ulm’s Ward 4 will have a new City Councilor in 2027. Sue Ullery won the council seat Tuesday through a write-in vote. A total of 355 write-in votes were submitted for New Ulm’s Ward 4 council seat. Ullery received the majority of the votes with 240. Going into Tuesday’s ...

Johnson upsets Finstad by narrow 323-vote margin

Tuesday’s election saw massive wins for Democrats in Congressional races across the country and that includes a surprise DFL win for Jake Johnson in Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District over GOP incumbent Brad Finstad. Johnson declared victory early Wednesday morning with 163,057 votes ...

Still Here

NEW ULM - The Grand Center for Arts & Culture in New Ulm is presenting "Still Here: Cultural Reflections of the First Nations," an exhibition curated by John Kellen that runs through November 27. The collection, displayed in the 4 Pillars Gallery, coincides with National Native American ...

The music comes home

NEW ULM — A large group of people gathered at the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame (MMHF) museum on Friday, October 30 October Legacy Month. The programming was headlined by a special event titled, "The Hall Travels to Goosetown and Salutes Fezz Fritsche and the Goosetown Band: A Special Live ...

Final day to vote in 2026 midterm election

ST. PAUL – Election Day is here. This is the final day for voters to cast a ballot in the 2026 midterm elections. As of 9 a.m., Monday, Nov. 2, election officials in Minnesota have accepted 886,427 absentee and mail-in ballots for the midterm election, which ends today. Of the accepted ballots, 266,580 have been returned by mail and 619,847 ballots were cast in person. During a press conference Monday, Minnesota Secretary of State (SOS) Steve Simon said this is the highest number of absentee and mail-in ballots cast before an election in a non-presidential election year. “There ...

Rain no deterrent for NU voters

NEW ULM – It was a rainy Election Day Tuesday, but the weather did not deter voters in New Ulm. Each of New Ulm’s four polling sites reported high voter turnout, with many people waiting outside before the polls opened at 7 a.m. By 10 a.m. over 300 Ward 1 voters had cast a ballot at the ...