NEW ULM – Last Saturday, while hundreds of revelers were hunting for bocks near Schell’s Brewery during Bockfest, another group was searching fossils. William Eibner, Marcus Brandel and Wade Cordes met with Science Museum of Minneapolis Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology Alex Hastings in ...

NICOLLET - The Nicollet Public School Board learned about a potential $325,000 shortfall in special education funding Wednesday The board received a financial update from District Business Manager Jim Freihammer at their meeting on Wednesday. Freihammer presented the 2024-2025 preliminary ...

Rural Wabasso farmer Paul Sobocinski is one of three individuals who will share an endowed chair position at the University of Minnesota to help solve the rural meat processing bottleneck. Sobocinski, Tom Nuessmeier and Julie Cesar Tena Soria serve as the Minnesota Farmers Union “Solving ...

NEW ULM – As the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) is facing substantial cuts, local school districts are left in a holding pattern over what it will mean for their budgets. DOE recently announced the laying off of 1,300 employees as part of President Donald Trump’s goal of downsizing the ...

NEW ULM – This year for St. Paul's Lutheran spring musical students students will be performing a version of the Snow White story told from nearly every perspective. The show is called “The Snow White Musicapalooza!” Performances are 7 p.m. Friday, March 14 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 15 ...

NEW ULM — New Ulm Medical Center (NUMC) was recently named among the 2025 Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. The annual Top 100 award program honors outstanding performance among the nation’s rural hospitals based on results of the Chartis Rural ...