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Local South Dakota State Fall 2025 Dean’s list

Comfrey Jenica Schroepfer of Comfrey, College of Nursing Fairfax William Bastian, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Halle Bleick, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Jenna Schweiss, College of Education and Human Sciencess. Franklin Tiffany Robertson of Franklin, College of Education and Human Sciencess. Gibbon Abigail Willegal, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Jessica Willegal, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences. Hanska Taryn Helling, College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental ...

NUHS One-Act Play places 2nd in subsection competition

NEW ULM -- The New Ulm High School One Act Play competed Saturday January 24 in Springfield with their 35 minute condensed version of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The group, directed by Samarah Forster, took second place in Saturday's subsection competition and advances to the ...

League of Women Voters Empowering Voters

Precinct Caucuses are local meetings, held and run by the two major political parties in Minnesota: the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) and the Republican Party (GOP). At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3 the public has the opportunity to meet with neighbors face-to-face, to discuss ideas and actions you support which, if adopted, may become part of the party platform. A party’s platform is a formal, comprehensive document outlining the party’s core principles, goals and policy positions on key issues. A precinct caucus is the opportunity for voters to learn the process, ...

Miss Sleepy Eye 2026 candidates named

SLEEPY EYE — Candidates recently named for Miss Sleepy Eye 2026 are Kiara Murphy, Greta Siefkes, Hana Zeig and Alexandria Confer. Candidates will visit nursing homes Sunday, Feb. 1. The 2026 Miss Sleepy Eye Coronation begins at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 15 at the Sleepy Eye Event Center.

NUAF grant closes the curtain on theater’s old rigging system

NEW ULM – State Street Theater Company (SSTC) received a $7,500 grant from the New Ulm Area Foundation (NUAF) to support repairs to the theater’s rigging for the stage curtains. The stage curtains themselves are fine, but the rigging and pulley system that controls the curtains is in need ...

NUHS Knowledge Bowl take top 5 in Mankato meet

New Ulm High School (NUHS) Knowledge Bowl teams took all five places on the podium in their third meet of the season in Mankato on Tuesday, Jan. 27. Thirty-seven teams competed from New Ulm High School, Mankato East, Springfield, St. Mary's, Sleepy Eye, LCWM, Maple River, and TCU. New Ulm ...