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Senior Meals

Monday Chicken & Dumplings, green beans, diced pear cup, wheat bread w/margarine, cheesecake brownie and milk Tuesday Chicken broccoli, rice casserole, sliced carrots, gala apple, dinner roll w/ margarine and milk Wednesday Meatloaf, baked potato w/sour, cream, broccoli, applesauce cup, wheat bread w/margarine and milk Thursday Diced Turkey & Gravy Mashed Potatoes, stuffing, whole kernel corn, diced peach cup, dinner roll w/margarine and milk Friday Potato crunch fish fillet, mashed sweet potatoes, mixed vegetables, wheat dinner roll w/margarine, snickerdoodle, cookie and milk

Mathiowetz named Tomahawk Girls Basketball POTY

Sleepy Eye St. Marys’ Morgan Mathiowetz repeated as Tomahawk Division Girls Basketball Player of the Year after winning the award last season. Mathiowetz is joined by teammate Olivia Schieffert as a unanimous All-Conference Selection, while St. Marys’ Brynne Ibberson was an Honorable ...

LWV Meet Your Local Elected Officials series

NEW ULM - The League of Women Voters of New Ulm will host the third and final session in it’s “Meet Your Local Elected Officials” series, from 7-8 p.m. Monday, March 23. The final session will highlight the Brown County Commissioners and will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers. All community members are encouraged to attend these free and informative events. The first session in the “Meet Your Local Elected Officials” series featured New Ulm’s Mayor and City Council Members and the second session featured ISD88 School Board Members. These events were broadcast live ...

Choosing my next chapter

Dear Annie: My children are trying to move me into assisted living, and I feel like I’m being slowly erased. I am in my early 80s, and I still live in the home where I raised my kids. It is not fancy, but it is mine. I know every creaky stair. I know which window sticks in the winter. I have neighbors who check in on me, a routine that keeps me grounded and a life that feels familiar and dignified. Here is the part that makes me feel misunderstood. Last Sunday, I hosted what I have hosted for years, coffee and banana bread after church. Nothing glamorous. Just a few neighbors at my ...

Make the most of the food you buy

Dear Heloise: When I buy a rotisserie chicken, I eat one leg and thigh while it is nice, warm and tasty. Then I put the bag of chicken in the fridge. I later take the breast meat off for chicken salad to eat alone or as a sandwich, and I always put a 1/2 teaspoon of curry powder in the chicken salad. I use the remaining leg and thigh meat to make a chicken noodle casserole and boil up everything else into a delicious soup. -- Fran, via email Fran, during the depression, our grandmothers often made the most of everything they had. As they said then, “waste not, want not.” I like the ...