To the editor: What a beautiful and heartwarming tradition we have in New Ulm! It is so refreshing to attend New Ulm’s Memorial Day observations, starting with the 9:00 parade up Minnesota Street. The basic elements of the parade are the same as they were years and years ago, with the ...

Former president Donald Trump always took great pains when talking about COVID-19 to call it the “Chinese flu.” He claimed he had intelligence reports that said the virus had been developed in a Wuhan, China clinic, that it escaped, and that the Chinese government ignored its existence ...

Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary since George Floyd gasped out his life under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. It has been a year of violence sparked by Floyd’s killing starting Minneapolis and St. Paul and spread across the country. It has been a year in ...

Minnesota had a good weekend with the COVID-19 news. Active cases are down to 5,720, our lowest point since mid-September. The number of hospitalized patients is down, and the number of new hospitalizations is falling. No new deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in the state on Monday. ...

Attitudes in America toward police forces and police tactics have been mixed and confusing in the past year. So it has been in Minneapolis this past year. Since the killing of George Floyd a year ago, there has been a push to defund the police, to dissolve the police force and replace it ...

Armory construction THUMBS UP: The construction of the new National Guard Armory and field maintenance shop in New Ulm has begun. A groundbreaking ceremony was held this week for the field maintenance shop,. This will be completed in 2022, with the National Guard Readiness Center, or armory, ...