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Homeless shelter for women expanding

With homeless numbers at a record high, NUMAS Haus, an unhoused shelter serving women and their children primarily in Brown County, is striving to help as much as possible, including adding housing for more families.  “Homelessness is an endemic everywhere, both in urban and rural areas. ...

NUHS crowns 2025 homecoming Queen and King

New Ulm High School crowns Lauren Schmiesing and Daniel Brownfield as 2025 Homecoming Queen and King. The coronation was held Monday night to kick off a week of Homecoming themed events. The homecoming parade will be held 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26. The football game will follow at 7 p.m. at NUHS ...

Tea for Cancer gala raises $30,000

NEW ULM – Sunday, hundreds gathered at the Best Western Plus for afternoon tea and to support those battling cancer. The sixth annual Tea for Cancer benefit began as an annual backyard party with friends, but has since evolved into an event that benefits area cancer patients. Since August ...

Recounting the star-guided Pacific voyage

NEW ULM - Marine veteran and New Ulm native Stephen Somsen spoke last week at the New Ulm Public Library, offering a firsthand account of a landmark 1980 voyage aboard Hokulea, a traditional Polynesian double-hulled canoe that sailed more than 2,300 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti using only ...

Capt. Willibald Bianchi to receive full burial honors in New Ulm

Eighty years after his death, Congressional Medal of Honor winner Captain Willibald Bianchi is coming home to New Ulm. On Friday, U.S. Secretary of War Peter Hegseth made the announcement that the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced U.S. Army Capt. Willibald C. Bianchi's ...

Welcoming Week returns to NU with booths, music, activities 

NEW ULM, Minn. — New Ulm hosted its second Welcoming Week event Friday in the City Hall parking lot. The event was organized by the Human Rights Commission and held in conjunction with National Welcoming Week. Commission member Sarah Leslie said the event aimed to introduce residents to ...