For many, the German Park Garden is a crown jewel in New Ulm’s park system but few people know of the work that goes into maintaining it. Earlier this month New Ulm Gardening Club received a peek behind the scenes. During a special meeting in German Park, the garden caretaker Mary Roufs ...
Interview conducted by Travis Rosenau on Sept. 5, 2023 at NUHS in New Ulm Karleee Stocker, a defender for the New Ulm Eagles soccer team, helped the Eagles preserve a 1-0 shutout over Marshall at home in a Big South Conference soccer game on Tuesday, Sept. 5. Q: What is your favorite sports ...
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 19 years. In the beginning, he was such a gentleman. He never raised his voice or called me names, but as soon as we decided to blend our families, with my children living with us, he became very loud and started calling me names, and we argued frequently. I realized that he was abusing substances, but he quickly turned that behavior around when I told him I would not allow it. A few years later, he stopped drinking completely, and things were calm. But then he changed again, and he now calls me the most terrible names I could ever ...
Dear Heloise: I wanted to tell you about my success in stopping a company from charging items on my credit card. I hadn’t paid that much attention to the charges because I was in the hospital and didn’t look at the statements carefully. When I did, I saw that a company had charged me for items I hadn’t ordered for several months. I had ordered something from them that was a one-time item, but they used my credit card information to charge me again. I wrote a letter to the credit card company with “Credit Card Fraud Report” written in red on the envelope. In a few days, I ...
My heart goes out to people experiencing weather-related disasters. I can try to imagine but do not know how such devastation feels. Research suggests that fictional books may be empathy-building tools. (https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/reading-fiction-empathy-better-person) Climate fiction, or cli-fi, is a form of speculative fiction that features a changed or changing climate as a major plot device. Here is a small sampling of the titles and descriptions I found searching the New Ulm Public Library online catalog at www.newulmlibrary.org. The “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia ...
Dear Annie: I will try to tell you a short version. I was married twice and had kids with both men. You could say my “picker” for men was or is broken. Anyway, I ended up leaving both men. Both were mentally abusive; one was also physically abusive. I took the kids with me. Well, it didn’t take long for both men to start “buying” my kids, and it just kept evolving into buying them anything they want. I was poor because both men kept the child support in arrears all the time. Fast-forward and none of the kids want anything to do with me, and now they have kids, and I get to ...
