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Sibley County Court • Noah Riley Herrington, 18, St. Cloud, pled guilty to felony fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance Nov. 25. Adjudication was stayed. He was placed on up to 3 years supervised probation with conditions that he served 90 days in the Sibley County Jail, ...

Community Friends Thanksgiving keeps growing

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NEW ULM – St. Mary’s Church hosted the 37th New Ulm Community Friends Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Volunteers are still tallying up the final number of meals served, but Community Friends co-chairman Les Schultz said they had planned for 1,500 meals this year, which is a little higher ...

PUC authorizes replacement of 60-year-old substation breaker

Local News

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized accepting a bid on a new 69kV breaker for the city’s Center Street Substation. This new breaker will replace a 60-year-old oil-filled breaker. Utility Planning and Development Engineer Dan Pirsig said this was the last of ...

‘Collecting little stories about people’

Local News

NEW ULM — Vicki Pieser never set out to write a book about Brown County’s Jewish community. “I was just collecting little stories about people,” she said. Over time, those stories grew into a full manuscript, now published as Jews in Germantown: The Diaspora in Brown County, ...

PUBLIC NOTICE

Legals

PUBLISH (November 21, 28, 2025) STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF BROWN FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT DISTRICT COURT PROBATE DIVISION Court File No. 08-PR-25-1071 Estate of Charles E. Kotten, Decedent NOTICE AND ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, ...

Cathedral Class ‘75

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NEW ULM - Cathedral High School class of 1975 held their class reunion Aug. 23 at Schell’s Brewery. The class had 94 members and 54 were able to attended. L to R: Jim Seifert, Pat (Lindsay) Norman, Doug Zwach, Karen (Manderfeld) Johnson, Ken Schugel, Lorie (Lindmeier) Schlomann, Ken Bastian, ...