NEW ULM—Aaron Gronau, 33, of New Ulm died Saturday, December 16, 2023 as a result of injuries he sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Friday, December 29, 2023 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm with Pastor Rob Guenther officiating. ...
Dear Annie: I wanted to make a comment on your recent response to the article, “My husband wants to limit how much we spend on sick pets.” Although I wholeheartedly agree with your response to consult with the writer’s partner prior to getting an animal, what goes into this consideration is so. much. more. I am a veterinarian, and I frequently am involved in these decision-making conversations. It can be extremely frustrating, to downright heartbreaking, to see when pet parents have not put any forethought into the costs of owning a pet. It starts with pet species and breed ...
Dear Heloise: Classroom teachers do not make decisions about the curriculum. People should channel all their classroom complaints to: 1. Legislators, who think they know all about education. 2. School boards, who don’t trust the professionalism of teachers. 3. Building principals, who are pressured to focus on test scores. They should also encourage parents to work in respectful partnership with their children’s teachers. -- Lisa Nunlist, Retired Middle School Teacher of 40 Years in Three States SOCIAL PROTOCOL Dear Heloise: When one is invited to dinner at another’s ...
The lightning bolt that shot from the sky more than four decades ago was a signal that everything was about to change. I was a young dairyman, struggling to scratch out a living on the rundown farm I had leased a few miles south of Brookings. I was doing chores with my Farmall “M” one summer morning when I espied a glowering thunderhead a few miles north. An incandescent blue spark flickered from cloud to ground. Moments later, I felt the thunderclap deep in my chest. “Somebody’s having a bad day,” I thought. The lightning struck an aging house that had been converted ...
the erection of the brick carvings on New Ulm’s historical trail has been initiated by New Ulm Business Districts, sponsor of the project. Historical trail co-chairmen Richard Heymann and Clara Schonlau said that approximately $8,000 will be needed to complete the project which depicts the ...
SEAFORTH—Linda S. Parish, age 73, of Seaforth, MN, passed away on Friday, November 24, 2023 at CentraCare Health – Redwood Hospital. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 8, 2023 from Nelson-Hillestad Funeral Home in Redwood Falls, MN, with burial at a later date. A visitation will be held on Friday, December 8, 2023, from 9 until 10 a.m. at Nelson-Hillestad Funeral Home. The Nelson-Hillestad Funeral and Cremation Service of Redwood Falls and Morgan are in charge of the arrangements. E-mail condolences may be sent via www.nelson-hillestad.com. Blessed be her ...
