Every year the City of New Ulm Building Safety Department receives dozens of calls from homeowners or area contractors wondering about what is needed by the City if you are planning on replacing a gas-powered appliance in New Ulm. The City’s Building Safety Department’s role with ...
There is a cabinet in The Journal office that marks the boundary between the newsroom and the circulation office. It is the perfect height, perfect size and perfect location for people who bring treats to the office. And we do have a lot of people who bring treats. The other day there was a ...
Every two weeks, when I look at my paycheck, I see about 9 percent of it disappearing to state and federal income taxes. Once a year, thanks primarily to three little hobgoblins running around the house, I get a decent portion of that back from Uncle Sam but not all of it, which I’m sure ...
As programming at New Ulm Middle School has continued to grow and evolve over the last three years, the focus remains on maintaining a student centered approach designed to meet the varying needs of all middle level learners. New Ulm Middle School educators are committed to meeting both the ...
Editor’s Note: The City of New Ulm presents a weekly column highlighting activities in different departments in the city government. Once a month the city will answer questions from readers. Questions on New Ulm city issues can be sent to comments@ci.new-ulm.mn.us. New Ulm Animal ...
We think of indoors and outdoors as separate, divided by the walls of our home. Inside, we control things: temperature, light, cleanliness, orderliness. Outside, nature calls the shots. Sometimes the line gets blurred. In our house, various of our children occasionally traverse through. But ...
When will this winter end?
New Ulm Public Utilities Commissioners unanimously approved the proposed electric rate increase at their January meeting. The electric rate increase was based on a cost of service study. The cost of service study calculates the cost to provide service in each rate class. Rate classes ...
Brown County Human Services is in need of foster homes like never before. In the past years Brown County was challenged with placing 30 children in 20 available foster care homes. The number of foster children needing placement in Brown County has increased to 40 children and the number of ...
How did you survive the Polar Vortex? (Asked Sunday at the Sleepy Eye Ice Fishing Contest)
Call it a guilty pleasure. When the reality TV show “Swamp People” first came out, my wife and I enjoyed it more than we should. Set in the “swamps of Louisiana,” TV crews followed around groups of hunters during the annual alligator season. Typically, two-men hunting crews decked ...
Boy did we hit a tough stretch of weather this past week. It is never easy to make weather-related calls for school and this week was a challenge with the extreme cold temperatures — affecting people, equipment and buses. From dangerous wind chills, to equipment that has fits in cold weather, ...
An Information Technology (IT) department is often thought of as the people who fix the computers, and for many employees who use technology in some part of their jobs, that can be the most common way they interact with IT staff. Truth is, however, that IT does quite a lot more than that. ...
There was a stretch in November when I went to five wakes in ten days. The bend toward winter always has more than its share of funerals, but that many was notable. When you hang around the town where you grew up, wakes are part of your social calendar. I am the age where the services I ...
What is your prediction for the Superbowl?
By Jonah Goldberg It’s getting to the point where it’ll be easier to list the Democrats who are not running for president in 2020. But the roster on the Republican side remains a minority of one. That may change. As Jonathan Last of The Bulwark notes, primary challenges of sitting ...
By Kathleen Parker WASHINGTON — When a white, Catholic-school boy wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap is shown staring down a Native American Vietnam War veteran, sending the media scrambling for their pitchforks and torches, one might want to pause and stroke one’s chin. ...
By Jules Witcover WASHINGTON — A rare rebuff by the Justice Department’s Special Counsel’s Office to a BuzzFeed report on President Donald Trump — calling it “not accurate” — has raised the stakes in the president’s war on the press as “the enemy of the people.” The ...
Happy New Year, New Ulm, and a heartfelt thank you! On behalf all of us at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation® (MHIF), we express our deepest appreciation to everyone in New Ulm who has contributed to the tremendous success of The Heart of New Ulm Project (HONU) since 2009. It’s ...
After driving into winter storm Gia last weekend and watching another round of winter weather roll into southwest Minnesota Friday, my appreciation for the accuracy of 21st century meteorologists continues to increase. While I have no quantifiable data to support this, it would appear the ...