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THUMBS UP NU plays in 3rd consecutive Jr. Legion State Baseball tournament The New Ulm Junior Legion Gold defeated Marshall Thursday to win the Division 1 Junior Legion Sub-State G Baseball Tournament. The win moves Junior Gold to next week’s state tournament, in Alexandria. The win over Marshall was impressive in itself, but it also meant that New Ulm will be playing in its third consecutive Junior Legion State Baseball Tournament. Also for New Ulm, the New Ulm Legion Gold baseball team already has a state berth in the D1 Senior Legion State Baseball Tournament since New Ulm hosts ...

Recalling the day my dad lost his right arm

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Writing a column isn’t usually physically challenging. Unless you count wracking my brain. Sometimes I pull a muscle in my cerebellum. Today I’m having to work at this. Wednesday morning, I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right wrist. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to type after that. But here I am, plunking away with a giant, clompy wrap around my right hand. Credit to Tylenol. My post-op instructions mention no strenuous activity for that hand. I’m not sure writing counts as strenuous. Finding the right words and pounding them together to build a sentence are heavy ...

Right the ship in Minnesota

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To the Editor: So the legislative session has ended in Minnesota. It’s not surprising no one was held to account for the $9 billion (and counting) in fraudulent activities while Democrats were in control. Yes, some of the little people got their fingers slapped. The bigger fish have yet to be fried. Walz, Ellison, Frey, Klobuchar, Omar, Craig, (and countless others), all knew and were involved to some extent. The fraud no doubt continues in ways we have yet to discover. With Democrats controlling the governor, Senate, and a tie in the House, no meaningful pain was, or will be felt ...

Celebrating 145 years of farming

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Gilbert Nelson left Norway in 1864 and settled in Ettrick, Wisconsin. He then joined the Wisconsin Regulars and served in the Civil War. By 1881, Gilbert and his wife, Anna, had five sons and a daughter. Hoping to carve out a new life in Dakota Territory, the Nelsons loaded everything they ...

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Thumbs Up Bavarian Blast is back Bavarian Blast is back in New Ulm. The entertainment began Thursday night and will continue through Sunday, which will include the Bavarian Blast Parade. This is the 20th year Bavarian Blast has been held in New Ulm. The festival has come a long way since it first began. Bavarian Blast began with an emphasis on traditional German bands, but has brought in the contemporary with evenings dedicated to country music and another dedicated to rock ‘n roll covers. The festival remains an impressive undertaking put on by a handful of dedicated ...

The more things don't change

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The French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr knew what he was talking about when, in 1849, he coined the phrase "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." (The more things change, the more they remain the same.) It has been repeated and attributed to different people, but he appears to have ...