Hanska News

July Fourth weekend fun-seekers have a choice of places to visit. Sleepy Eye, Cambria, Hanska and Morton will host events including street dances, fireworks, co-ed softball games, a patriotic program plus food and drink.

Citizens Bank Minnesota has hired Mitch Miller, Kristen Luepke and Sadie Blackstad as the 2009 T.E.A.M. Future Bankers interns.

A local New Ulm woman noticed something quite unusual in Lake Hanska following the storm winds on Tuesday.

Hanska's Gary Wilfahrt Jr. shut out Essig as the Lakers defeated Essig 5-0 in Tomahawk East amateur baseball action.

Brown County Commissioners awarded a bridge and approach grading contract on CSAH 11 over the Cottonwood River Tuesday to the project's low bidder.

Ricky Holmquist, Jr., 17, of Gibbon, died Tuesday, June 2, 2009, at his home in Gibbon.

New Ulm Kurt Odegard, 50, of New Ulm, died Saturday, May 30, 2009 near Hanska, the result of a motor vehicle accident.

A 50-year old rural New Ulm man, Kurt Odegard, died at the scene of a one-vehicle rollover accident Saturday evening near Hanska.

The United Way of the Brown County Area announces that Donna Lambrecht has agreed to serve as its new Executive Director.

On her next-to-last day of work, I intercept Jan Carpenter, Jefferson Elementary social worker, giving away pillows and stuffed animals to appreciative kindergartners.

The annual Syttende Mai parade went off without a hitch even though a high-level cloud bank cruising in on a southeasterly course spewed some light sprinkles over the city at the very end of the 67-unit parade.

The Brown County Sheriff's Office is seeking information from the public regarding an assault early Saturday morning on a Hanska area adult male.

A 17-year-old teen is facing the most serious charges stemming from a series of drug busts in Brown County during the past month.

Don 'Buck' Buchanan has been hosted an annual spring gathering of hunting buddies for three decades.

The Brown County board rejected a second county-wide trail agreement Tuesday morning.

A collision in the 400 block of 20th South Street near Hy-Vee resulted in severe damage to one vehicle and moderate damage to another car late Thursday afternoon.

The New Ulm City Council will be asked tonight to approve the issuance of liquor and amusement licenses, beginning May 1 and ending June 30, for Pub and Patio, Inc., Darryl Weigel's new establishment in the building that previously housed Trips Bar.

NEW ULM Gladys Orlene Hottman, 86, of New Ulm, died Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at the Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St.

When Clarie Streng met Dennis Broste in 2002, they couldn't have come from two more different worlds.

A May 16, 2009 wedding is planned. Brand - Melzer The Free Press Rachel Brand daughter of Karen and Perry Johnson of New Ulm.