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New Ulm

For prom, everything is in fashion

NEW ULM – Spring is here and prom season has begun. Within the next few weeks New Ulm’s three high schools will host their prom celebration, which means a hunt for formal wear. Area boutiques reported a rush for prom dresses, tuxes and suits and it seems no style is off limits. Kelly ...

New Ulm retains Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community designation

NEW ULM — New Ulm has been designated a bronze‑level Bicycle Friendly Community for the second time, the Parks and Recreation Commission learned Monday.  The recognition comes from the League of American Bicyclists and reflects ongoing efforts to improve safety, infrastructure and ...

NUAF welcomes endowment from The Warta Family Fund

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Area Foundation (NUAF) celebrated a new endowment fund courtesy of the late Denis Warta. Before Warta’s death in November, he bequeathed $116,850 to the New Ulm Area Foundation to establish The Warta Family Fund. Denny Warta children; Diann and Dean and his grandson ...

Making paw-gress

NEW ULM — A Music & Makers market at Lykke Books on Saturday included a fundraiser for a latex-detection service dog needed by a local teenager with a life-threatening allergy. The market, which occurs every one or two months, gives regional vendors commercial space and offers ...

Park and Rec receives update on master plan

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Park and Recreation Commission reviewed a 90% draft of the city’s 15-year Park and Recreation Master Plan during Monday’s meeting. Claire Roth, a planner with ISG, presented the draft. The plan has been in development since April 2025 and outlines recommendations ...

Stitched into history

NEW ULM — Randy Hartten stood before a packed room at The Grand Center for Arts & Culture, recounting how an unfinished collection of his late mother’s quilt squares became a one-of-a-kind artist’s book. ​The project, titled “An Unfinished Project,” was initiated after Hartten ...