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NU FIlm Society to screen “The Fabelmans”

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NEW ULM – The New Ulm Film Society will close out its Steven Spielberg director series with the 2022 film “The Fabelmans,” the director’s most personal film to date. The screening begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14 at the New Ulm Public Library. “The Fabelmans” is a coming-of-age drama about a young man, Sammy Fabelman (played by Gabriel LaBelle), who becomes enamored with filmmaking at a young age and how that impacts the way he views his parents, Mitzi and Burt Fabelman, played by Michelle Williams and Paul Dano.  The movie begins in 1952 New Jersey with The ...

Permit approved for Scooter’s Coffee drive-through

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NEW ULM – A permit approval has paved the way for a new drive-through coffee business at Broadway and N. Fourth Street. The New Ulm City Council on Tuesday approved a conditional use permit (CUP) to allow Scooter’s Coffee drive-through. The business would be part of a new 6,135 ...

Sleepy Eye FFA qualifies four more teams for state

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The Sleepy Eye Future Farmers of America (FFA) members competed in the last Region VI Contests for the year on March 31st at the BARC in Windom. The Soils and Poultry teams both took second place while Nursery Landscape took 3rd and Floriculture qualified with fourth place.  In the soils ...

Quilting is her happy place

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NEW ULM — Theresa Westrup was smiling a lot talking while with friends and quilting enthusiasts at the 2026 New Ulm Quilt Show at the Royal Oak Event Center Friday. “Quilting has been a wonderful hobby. I find myself in my ‘happy place’ when stitching a quilt together,” she ...

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SATURDAY Narcotics Anonymous, 10:30 a.m., River Valley Christian Church, 100 N. Washington St., New Ulm. Use side entrance. Open to the public. New Ulm Quilt Show 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Royal Oak Event Center. Quilt show displaying 300 quilts, vendors, featured quilter, Raffle Quilt Basket/Project Raffle, Door Prizes amd Food. Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward Saturday, April 11 at 7 PM at State Street Theater. Tickets: $15 in advance • $20 at the door, Kids 12 and under $5 Grateful Dead Night at the Flying Dutchmen Motorcycle Clubhouse Barn. Doors open at 4pm with bonfire and music ...

Twin Cities printmaker takes up residency at The Grand

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NEW ULM — The Grand Center for Arts and Culture has welcomed Twin Cities-based printmaker and comic artist Izzy Shinn as its newest artist-in-residence. Shinn, who specializes in intaglio printmaking and ink illustration, arrived March 30 and will remain through April 13. The residency is ...