NEW ULM – Last Saturday, while hundreds of revelers were hunting for bocks near Schell’s Brewery during Bockfest, another group was searching fossils. William Eibner, Marcus Brandel and Wade Cordes met with Science Museum of Minneapolis Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology Alex Hastings in ...

NEW ULM – As the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) is facing substantial cuts, local school districts are left in a holding pattern over what it will mean for their budgets. DOE recently announced the laying off of 1,300 employees as part of President Donald Trump’s goal of downsizing the ...

NEW ULM – This year for St. Paul's Lutheran spring musical students students will be performing a version of the Snow White story told from nearly every perspective. The show is called “The Snow White Musicapalooza!” Performances are 7 p.m. Friday, March 14 and 7 p.m. Saturday, March 15 ...

NEW ULM – A closing date of March 31 has been set for sale of the Garden Terrace Apartments from the New Ulm Economic Development Authority (EDA) to Rebound Partners, with an agreement in place for the development of vacant lot on the property. Last October, the EDA agreed to sell the ...

NEW ULM – Saturday’s celebration at August Schell’s Brewery was not the warmest Bockfest on record, but it it was close with temperatures reaching 52 degrees by noon. The warm weather likely inspired a higher a turnout for the festival. “We could be pushing 6,000 people,” Schell's ...

NEW ULM – The New Ulm Ministerial Association Shelter (NUMAS) is within $140,000 of reaching its $1.06 million campaign thanks to a $250,000 grant award from South Country Health Alliance (SCHA), Friday. SCHA is a county-owned health plan. There are seven counties in the organization. ...