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New Ulm

New Ulm celebrates Cathedral Homecoming

NEW ULM — Friday afternoon downtown New Ulm took on a maroon shade as Cathedral High School led parade down Minnesota Street in honor of homecoming. The parade was led by the Greyhound marching band starting from Cathedral High School, passing by St. Anthony’s to North State Street and ...

NU School Board supports amending new SRO restrictions

NEW ULM — The New Ulm School Board threw their support behind a resolution to fix the School Resource Officer (SRO) issue Thursday. The board unanimously approved to adopt a resolution created by the Minnesota School Boards Association (MSBA). The resolution looks to lobby the state ...

‘Sometimes people need to get a ticket’

NEW ULM — Speeding is an issue on the rise in New Ulm and Brown County. With three months left to go, the number of speeding arrests has already eclipsed the number from 2022. There have been 193 so far this year and 192 was the final total last year. These are both increases from 2021 when ...

PUC authorizes needed equipment purchases

NEW ULM -- Switchgear, water line, feed water pump, and backup potential transformer were all part of a list of equipment purchases authorized by the New Ulm Public Utilities Commission. Several utility projects are currently underway or in the early planning stages. The PUC needed to ...

Paul Torkelson taking leadership roles in upcoming session

NEW ULM — Republican legislators in Minnesota were expecting to ride a big “Red Wave” in the 2022 election to take the majority in the Minnesota House and Senate, State Rep. Paul Torkelson (R-Hanska) said Tuesday. Speaking to the New Ulm Rotary Club, Torkelson said the Red Wave turned ...