NEW ULM — Two-time Newbery Award-winning Kate DiCamillo returned to New Ulm on Saturday for the first time in more than 25 years and a sold-out crowd of 125 readers gathered at Lykke Books. The event filled the bookstore with families, teachers, grandparents and fans from the Twin Cities, ...

NEW ULM — Artist Luke Johnson opened his solo exhibition, “Close and Distant Reading,” Friday at the 4 Pillars Gallery in The Grand Center for Arts & Culture. The show, featuring 15 prints and drawings inspired by lead type spacing tools from the building’s Cellar Press, runs ...

New Ulm -The Concord Singers kicked off New Ulm’s Music in the Park series Thursday night at German Park. Music in the Park is sponsored by New Ulm Park and Recreation, and KNUJ. Along with weekly concerts every Thursday, the event features Rec on the Go activities at 5:30pm. New Ulm’s ...

NEW ULM - John Kellen, executive director of The Grand Center for the Arts in New Ulm, has a solo exhibition on view at the Izaak Walton League’s Les Kouba Gallery in Bloomington. The exhibition, titled "Mní Wičóni" (Dakota for “Water is Life”), opened June 1. It features nature ...

NEW ULM — The New Ulm Area Foundation awarded a grant to Friends of Minnesota Valley to support its River Sampling Program for student water quality testing. The check presentation took place at Minnecon Park along the Minnesota River on Thursday. Ted L. Suss, president of Friends of the ...

NEW ULM – E. Jay Vancura, known to family and friends as Jay, shapes a knight for a diamond willow chess set at his workbench in his New Ulm home. The project is for his grandson Jack. Vancura retired from his career as a pharmacist in 2020. Vancura has worked for decades in woodworking, ...