NEW ULM — Brown County Human Services Director Anne Broskoff recently learned she was appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court Council on Child Protection. Her appointment replaced the executive director of MACSSA (Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators) position on ...

NEW ULM — The 2025 Concerts in the Park series concluded Thursday evening with a performance by Chris Ames and Chris Steffen of Sleepy Eye, known as Chris & Chris. The duo, who have performed together since 2012, closed the summer season with a setlist that included both classic country ...

NEW ULM – Fifty years ago, the Nguyen family came to New Ulm as refugees. Last week they returned to celebrate with the community that gave them a new start. In April 1975, Dinh Nguyen and his wife, Nghiem Tran, were living in South Vietnam. They had two children: a one-year-old daughter, ...

NEW ULM – The results are in and the top winners of the 2025 New Ulm Optimist Club photo contest are brothers Jackson Newgord and AJ Guggisberg. The goal of the contest was to take a photo the best represents a part of the Optimist Creed. Each photo submitted was required to be matted and ...

Sleepy Eye Police • Cited a 15-year-old male for vape possession at Sleepy Eye Public School at 8:29 a.m. Friday. Minnesota State Patrol • Responded to a two-vehicle injury crash on Highway 14 at 615th Avenue, Le Ray Township, Blue Earth County at 7:09 a.m. Thursday. A 2016 Nissan Rogue ...

NEW ULM — Aided by nature enthusiast Deb Steinberg, about a dozen monarch butterflies began their migration to central Mexican forests at Woodstone Senior Living Thursday. Steinberg and a couple of her nature-loving friends told residents about monarch butterflies, tagged their wings and ...