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NU Film Society phones home with screening of ‘E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial’

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NEW ULM — The New Ulm Film Society’s Steven Spielberg film series continues to be out of this world with a screening of “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.” The screening begins 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9 at the New Ulm Public Library. Before “E.T.” was released in 1982, Spielberg was already one of the most popular directors in the world. His work on “Jaws,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” cemented his reputation for creating hugely successful spectacle-driven movies. “E.T.” would continue that trend, but would also show ...

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Editorials

THUMBS UP SE Holiday Lights in Motion are back After taking 2024 off, Sleepy Eye Holiday Lights in Motion are back. Sportsman’s Park in Sleepy Eye is filled with over a half million Christmas lights and a full schedule of themed event nights through the rest of the month. The lights display is a decade-long tradition. Its absence in 2024 was felt throughout the community. Many people took for granted the lights display would always be in Sleepy Eye, but getting the park ready requires a lot of volunteer support. The return of Holiday Lights in Motion is a sign the community is ...

How home care and hospice benefits people and communities

Columns

All the varied levels of health care help ensure that patients are in the best setting for their condition and recovery. In many cases, that setting is home — which is exactly where the majority of patients want to be. Did you know that the average length of stay in a hospital has decreased from 21 days in the 1960s to around five today? Medical advancements, like minimally invasive surgery, and the transition of more services from inpatient to outpatient are key reasons behind that shift. Inpatient hospital care is the most expensive setting. Also, home health has benefits that ...

Murder on the high seas

Letters

To the editor: Pete Hegseth, like so many of Trump’s nominees for top government posts, was and is wholly unqualified for the job for which he’s been entrusted. The red flags, sent up by his own mother and chronicled by his immature displays of public drunkenness, weren’t enough to sway Republicans from keeping Pete from becoming a cabinet member as the Secretary of Defense. After all, whatever Donald wanted, Donald got, and the hearings were nothing but a rubber stamp to approve the President’s Fox News Network cavalcade of incompetent clowns. Oh, the Republican Senators acted ...

Support local retailers

Editorials

Christmas is just weeks away and millions of Americans will be perusing for bargains at their favorite retailers. For those of us who have chosen to live in small communities the drive to a large mall or box store might be hours away and not very convenient when the roads are bad and daylight hours are few. Some will take solace in front of their computer screen while sipping their hot cup of coffee to shop from the convenience of their home and not venture out into the cold. Amazon is now the go to place for many when it comes to shopping. It is so successful that its creator ...

Unlawful orders

Letters

To the editor: During my 24 years on active duty, I was stationed on ships that were directly involved in Drug Interdiction Operations. We searched, seized, arrested and commandeered. We did not summarily execute. Now Trump is ordering these vessels to be destroyed. This is extra judicial killings as in this country we do not execute suspects regardless of offense without evidence and due process. Now some in Congress have called on military members to refuse to obey “unlawful orders”. Trump calls this “seditious behavior at the highest level. Each one of these traitors to our ...