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Ruth Klossner to receive Sertoma’s Service to Mankind Award

NEW ULM – The Sertoma Club of New Ulm will hold its annual Service to Mankind Award Banquet Monday. This year’s recipient of the Service to Mankind Award is Ruth Klossner. Klossner has served with many organizations Brown and Nicollet County. Klossner has been heavily involved in the New Ulm Farm-City Hub Club, serving as club secretary. She is active at Bernadotte Lutheran Church and Fields of Grace Parish; Lafayette Lions Club, Nicollet County 4-H Federation, Nicollet American Legion Auxiliary, Nicollet County Holstein Association, Connecting Nicollet County Leadership Program, ...

Fair food comes early

NEW ULM — The Brown County Fair doesn’t open until August, but fair food came early to diners at the Hy-Vee parking lot Thursday. Several food trucks with Solem Concession were parked in the west side of the parking lot offering fair food months before county and state fairs open their ...

Housing in the works

NEW ULM – A variety of residential housing developments are in the works across New Ulm. During Tuesday’s New Ulm Economic Development Authority (EDA) meeting, city staff provided the board with a roundup of all the residential housing projects in some state of development. The list of ...

Sleepy Eye elementary principal finalists named

SLEEPY EYE — Sleepy Eye Public School Superintendent John Cselovszki revealed elementary principal finalist candidates to the school board Tuesday. The finalists are New Richland Hartland Ellendale Geneva Schools Teaching & Learning Coordinator Jason Toupence, Granada Huntley East Chain Schools Agriculture Instructor/FFA Advisor and Sleepy Eye native McKenzie Wagelie, Kimball Elementary Principal Joel Timmerman, and Fridley High School Assistant Principal Mark Jacobs. “The hiring committee reviewed nine applicants and offered four candidates an interview opportunity,” Cselovszki ...

NU welcomes German playwright, wife ahead of play premiere

NEW ULM — Playwright Erich Becker and his wife, American professional harpist Valerie Cribbs, received a welcome reception at State Street Theater, Tuesday. The welcome comes ahead of the North American premiere of Becker’s play, “A Life for the Revolution” The play tells the story ...

‘Definitely a rare scenario’

NEW ULM — Blowing dust in Minnesota and northern Iowa could be seen from a satellite over the Earth, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) Tuesday. The NWS issued a blowing dust advisory as wind gusts were measured at 50 mph in Hanska, 48 mph in St. James, 46 mph in Olivia and 45 mph in New Ulm and Olivia, according to NWS Meteorologist Brent Hewett in Chanhassen. “That’s the first time the NWS issued a blowing dust advisory that I can remember,” said Brown County Emergency Management Director Shawn Stoermann. “Conditions were perfect for a dust storm with the ...