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NU Council orders in ’26 road surfacing and utility improvement projects

NEW ULM – The 2026 surface reconstruction project and utility street and alley improvement projects were approved by the New Ulm City Council Tuesday, following two public hearings. The first public hearing was for the surface reconstruction projects on Jonathon Drive from Summit Avenue to the South Leg of McIntosh Drive and Cottonwood Street from Broadway to Bridge Street. Both surface projects involve the removal and replacement of the road surfacing. No underground utility work is planned with the surfacing project. The Engineer's preliminary estimate for the project is $318,330 ...

Campaign tour takes Demuth’s running mate to New Ulm

NEW ULM – Ryan Wilson, the running mate for Minnesota Speaker of the House Lisa Demuth in her campaign for Governor, stopped in New Ulm Monday to speak with voters ahead of precinct caucuses. Wilson is an attorney and previously lost a narrow race for state auditor in 2022. He also ...

NU Republicans favor Demuth for governor

NEW ULM — Brown County Republicans heavily favored Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth for governor in a caucus straw poll at the New Ulm Community Center Tuesday. Demuth got 19 of 44 straw ballot votes cast. Kendall Qualls received nine votes. Getting four votes each were Scott Jensen, ...

Klobuchar tops DFL straw poll in landslide

NEW ULM – Around 100 voters attended the DFL precinct caucus at New Ulm High School Tuesday night. Caucus attendees had the opportunity to vote on a preference ballot for governor. The two DFL candidates are Amy Klobuchar and Christopher Seymore. In Brown County, Klobuchar won the straw ...

Teen celebrates 15th birthday catching 5-pound northern

LAKE HANSKA — Casey Gulden of Hanska will probably remember his 15th birthday for a while. “I just turned 15 today. It’s my birthday,” he said after catching a five-pound northern, with a minnow on a small spoon lure. It was the heaviest rough fish caught at the Lake Hanska Ice ...

Keeping ‘tradition going’

SLEEPY EYE – Sunday, a small ice fishing community sprang up on Sleepy Eye Lake for the Sleepy Eye Sportsmen’s Club 44th Annual Ice Fishing Derby. A little over 750 people registered to take part in the fishing tradition. Most of those fishing did so from inside ice fishing shacks, but ...