Staff photo by Fritz Busch Sleepy Eye Holiday Lights in Motion light up the night sky at Sportsman's Park on Sleepy Eye Lake Friday. The lights continue nightly through Jan. 1, 2026.

NEW ULM – St. Mary’s Church hosted the 37th New Ulm Community Friends Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Volunteers are still tallying up the final number of meals served, but Community Friends co-chairman Les Schultz said they had planned for 1,500 meals this year, which is a little higher ...

NEW ULM — Vicki Pieser never set out to write a book about Brown County’s Jewish community. “I was just collecting little stories about people,” she said. Over time, those stories grew into a full manuscript, now published as Jews in Germantown: The Diaspora in Brown County, ...

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Public Utilities Commission (PUC) authorized accepting a bid on a new 69kV breaker for the city’s Center Street Substation. This new breaker will replace a 60-year-old oil-filled breaker. Utility Planning and Development Engineer Dan Pirsig said this was the last of ...

NEW ULM --- The New Ulm Sister Cities Commission bid Samuel Knoops a fond farewell Monday at the Kegel Klub. Knoops of Ulm, Germany, came to New Ulm in early September as part of the Sister Cities intern exchange program. In Germany, Knoops worked at Gold Oshsen Brewery. During his internship ...

NEW ULM — Brown County Commissioners unanimously approved a two-year landfill operating contract with Mathiowetz Enterprises Inc. Tuesday. The contracts include a 2.5% cost increases each year, effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2028. The 2026 contract cost is $531,065 and $544,341 ...