NEW ULM — The Minnesota Music Hall of Fame (MMHF) held Johnny Helget Day earlier this month to recognize the New Ulm concertina player and bandleader. The event was billed as Celebrating Oktoberfest — Johnny Helget Day, honoring Helget (1939-2022), inducted 2018, as a New Ulm original, a ...
NEW ULM - Dirk and Gina Becker traveled from Augsburg, Germany, to New Ulm Oct. 9-12 to attend Schell's Oktoberfest and visit friends in the New Ulm Narren group. The couple belongs to the Ulm Narrenzunft - Zunftgruppe Butzaraule and Butzabell. They live in Augsburg and are members of the Ulm ...
NEW ULM — New Ulm is Minnesota's 2026-27 Retail Community of the Year. The honor was awarded as new economic data shows a single downtown Oktoberfest weekend generated $417,373 in direct visitor spending. The Minnesota Retailers Association presented the statewide recognition at Retail ...
NEW ULM – In 1862, the City of New Ulm purchased a parcel of land on the northern end of town that carried a restriction limiting the development of the property for the building of a hospital. In the 164 years since the land was purchased, the city has never developed the property beyond ...
NEW ULM — The votes for the 18th Annual ArtScape People's Choice Award are in and the winner is Maggie Gray for her piece “Weeping Winter.” The prize for People's Choice is a $200 gift certificate to Blick Art Materials, an art supply store. Marketing and program director at the Grand, ...
NEW ULM - Brown County’s Board of Commissioners set a public hearing date of Nov. 17 at 9:02 a.m. to establish an interim ordinance that would put a moratorium on permitting, expanding, or establishing data centers in Brown County’s unincorporated areas. The moratorium would place a one-year block of any data centers looking to be established in Brown County. Commissioner Anton Berg said the meeting is not about whether people are in favor of data centers or not, but rather to establish documented plans for navigating any potential approaches regarding data centers in Brown ...
