NEW ULM - On May 6, students from Jefferson Elementary, New Ulm Middle School, River Bend, St. Anthony and St. Paul all participated in the annual spring Walk to School Day. The Heart of New Ulm’s Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Action Team promotes Walk or Bike to School Day every fall and ...
SLEEPY EYE — Sleepy Eye Medical Center (SEMC) was recently named on of the top 20 critical access hospitals in the U.S. for patient satisfaction. Selected among 1,367 critical access hospitals by the National Rural Health Association (NRHA), the recognition is regarded as one of the highest distinctions a rural hospital can receive for how it serves patients and area community. A Critical Access Hospital is a designation given by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to eligible rural hospitals, designed to reduce financial vulnerability and improve access to care. They must ...
Brown County District Court FIRST-DEGREE DWI Mona Vang. New Ulm. 51 mo. Shakopee Correctional Facility. Chemical dependency assessment. Felony. THIRD-DEGREE DWI Bjorn Steven Frederickson, Clements. $1,085. 364 days local confinement, 360 days stayed for three years supervised probation. Complete comprehensive assessment within 30 days of April 28, 2026. Follow all recommendations. No alcohol/controlled substance use except prescribed medications. Attend MADD Impact Panel. Gross misdemeanor. DWI Peter Charles Macho, New Ulm. $510. 90 days local confinement, stayed for one year ...
New Ulm Police • Received a call at 2:26 a.m. Friday of a vehicle all over the road on Highway 14/15 in Nicollet County. Officers stopped the vehicle and talked with the driver, a 36-year-old New Ulm man. Impairment clues were noticed. After failing field sobriety tests and a breath test, the man was arrested and transported to the Brown County Jail. A report went to the New Ulm City Attorney’s Office for consideration of a third-degree DWI charge. Sleepy Eye Police • Arrested and transported a 48-year-old Sleepy Eye man to the Brown County Jail for an harassment restraining ...
NEW ULM – After seven years, the New Ulm Economic Development Authority has chosen to discontinue its Small Business Incentive Grant program. The Small Business Incentive Grant program started in 2019 to support new small businesses in New Ulm with their start-up expenses during their first year of operation. The grant reimburses owners for eligible expenses up to $10,000 per business. Each year, $50,000 is allocated to the program, with a total of five businesses funded. EDA Director Heather Bregel said the incentive grant began as a pre-COVID measure to spur new small businesses in ...
NEW ULM — On Friday, May 8, local motivational speaker Ann Vote challenged herself to walk for 12-hours. Vote was inspired to do this after seeing an Instagram video of someone attempting the challenge and after reading “The 12-Hour Walk” by Colin O’Brady. In O’Brady’s book he ...
