NEW ULM – Minnesota Valley Funeral Homes have been honored by the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA) with the 2021 Pursuit of Excellence Award. Only 542 funeral home locations around the globe were honored with a 2021 Pursuit of Excellence Award, placing the Minnesota Valley ...
NEW ULM — MVAC (Minnesota Valley Action Council) Thrift & More Store now has a new manager since Tammy Gingles Baum took over as the new store manager. The Minnesota Valley Action Council is a private, non-profit organization that started in 1965 that uses federal, state and local ...
WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Farmers and Deere & Co. suppliers are worried about what the strike at the tractor maker’s factories will mean for their livelihoods. More than 10,000 Deere employees went on strike last week at 14 Deere factories in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and Georgia after the United Auto Workers union rejected a contract offer. The longer the strike continues, the greater the impact will be on the communities around the plants. “If this gets sorted out in a couple of days, great,” Brian Jones, who farms in central Iowa, told the Des Moines Register. “But if ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Enbridge has failed to meet a deadline set by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for cleaning up a site where an aquifer ruptured during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline, DNR officials said. The agency had given the company until Friday to repair the damage that caused the artesian aquifer near Clearbrook to leak at least 24 million gallons of groundwater. Regulators will require compensation for the additional time it takes to stop the groundwater flow. The DNR has already ordered Enbridge to pay $3.32 million for failing to follow ...
SLEEPY EYE — Miller Sellner Powersports of Sleepy Eye was recently awarded the 2021 Can-Am off-road dealer of the year award for their four state region. To achieve this award, Miller Sellner Powersports had to achieve a high retail goal for the year, as well as grow in dealer certification ...
NEW ULM — The Willkommen Committee of the New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce recently visited the new home of Gag Sheet Metal Inc., located at 1500 North Front Street, in what used to be Windings. The entry way to the building is very unique, with a time-line look of the history of the ...
