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Public Utilities approves new rate schedule for renewable energy generators

NEW ULM --New Ulm Public Utilities Commission (NUPUC) approved a new rate schedule for customers with renewable energy connection. Minnesota statute requires municipal utilities and cooperatives to provide a rate schedule to promote renewable energy installations. In New Ulm, the rate ...

EON, MBW alumni support NUMAS services

NEW ULM — The NUMAS Haus mission got a shot in the arm Thursday as former MBW Company owners Brenda and Mark Wiger donated a $15,000 matching grant. NUMAS Haus provides shelter and support services to homeless women and their children in the Brown County area. EON, Inc. of New Ulm, formerly ...

Exploring ‘emotional truth’

NEW ULM — Minnesota author, educator and New Ulm native Nancy Noyes Silcox returned to her hometown Wednesday to share the story behind her historical fiction novel "A Place Called Home." The event at Turner Hall brought a warm group of readers, former classmates and community members eager ...

BWSR awards $2.5 million in water storage grants

ST. PAUL — In an effort to support work that improves water quality and helps make landscapes more resilient to severe weather in a changing climate, the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) awarded $2.5 million in water quality and storage program grants to 10 government ...

‘It’s going to take audience help’

MORGAN — Back on stage for their 37th year, the Morgan Community Players present “The Groom Has Cold Feet” this weekend in the Cedar Mountain High School Auditorium. “We gravitate to murder mysteries. That’s what we and our audiences like. I read up on a bunch of plays. I felt this ...

Les Schwab Tire Center rolls into New Ulm

NEW ULM — On Wednesday, Les Schwab Tire Center opened its doors for a soft roll out of its newest shop in New Ulm. The new tire center is located at 1507 U.S. Highway 14 near the roundabout. Les Swab Tires was founded in 1952 in Oregon, where the headquarters remain to this day. Over the ...