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Red Cross Blood Drive draws 176 units in three days

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NEW ULM – The Red Cross wrapped up its New Ulm blood drive held at the Civic Center Friday. Over the three day blood drive, the Red Cross received 176 units donated. Wednesday, 70 units of blood were donated and one pin awarded to Jason Rewitzer for reaching seven-gallons of donated blood. Thursday, 49 units of blood were donated and one pin awarded to Eugene Globlirsch for reaching 19-gallons of donated blood. Friday, 57 units were donated with one pin awarded to David Christiansen for reaching 16-gallons.

Ruth Klossner to receive Sertoma's Service to Mankind Award

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NEW ULM – The Sertoma Club of New Ulm will hold its annual Service to Mankind Award Banquet Monday. This year’s recipient of the Service to Mankind Award is Ruth Klossner. Klossner has served with many organizations Brown and Nicollet County. Klossner has been heavily involved in the New Ulm Farm-City Hub Club, serving as club secretary. She is active at Bernadotte Lutheran Church and Fields of Grace Parish; Lafayette Lions Club, Nicollet County 4-H Federation, Nicollet American Legion Auxiliary, Nicollet County Holstein Association, Connecting Nicollet County Leadership Program, ...

Understanding life with dementia

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NEW ULM — About 20 community members gathered Wednesday at the CAST Senior Center for “Opening the Window to Dementia,” a free public program sponsored by the New Ulm Area Memory Care Friends. Sheri Dittrich, Geri Groebner, and Karla Hansel were instrumental in organizing the event, ...

Fair food comes early

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NEW ULM — The Brown County Fair doesn’t open until August, but fair food came early to diners at the Hy-Vee parking lot Thursday. Several food trucks with Solem Concession were parked in the west side of the parking lot offering fair food months before county and state fairs open their ...

Housing in the works

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NEW ULM – A variety of residential housing developments are in the works across New Ulm. During Tuesday’s New Ulm Economic Development Authority (EDA) meeting, city staff provided the board with a roundup of all the residential housing projects in some state of development. The list of ...

NU Izaak Walton Chapter ditch clean up

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NEW ULM - Members of the New Ulm Izaak Walton Chapter #79 cleaned over three miles of road ditch along County Highway 29 on Wednesday, April 29th. Members participating are left to right: Randy Newman, Dale Aufderheide, Bruce Olson, and Roman Schiller. Taking picture Carolyn Newman.