New Ulm News

New Ulm Jr. Legion beat Dassel 4-1 in VFW baseball action Wednesday. Kaleb Juntunen earned the win as he allowed three hits, a walk and struck out nine.

Tonight will be B&L Bar Night at Johnson Park when the New Ulm Brewers host Sleepy Eye in an 8 p.m. Tomahawk East League game.

The City of New Ulm has lost population since 2000, and from 2007 to 2008, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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

Saturday afternoon at the River Valley BMX track, the greeting could have been "G'Day" instead of "Guten Tag." The sun came out in time to shine on the annual River Valley State Championship Qualifying race, as well as the first ProAm race that featured a total prize of $1,000 and was won by an Australian AA Pro.

Hildegard "Hilde" Luepke, 84, of New Ulm, died Saturday, June 20, 2009 at the New Ulm Medical Center in New Ulm.

When it comes to algae, ugly is ugly. Recent rains may have removed much of the greenish tint from the thick, matted algae bloom that blankets the water just offshore from Bob Sutter's East Lake Jefferson home.

New Ulm Junior Legion improved to 13-1 on the season with an 8-0 win over Hutchinson Wednesday at Mueller Park.

The new girl in town finds something she never expected, in a place she never expected it.

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A Minnesota judge expects to get an update on the condition of a 13-year-old boy who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy.

Monday's hot weather may have caused a portion of the sidewalk on Center Street to buckle Monday afternoon.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's cuts in Local Government Aid, announced Tuesday afternoon, are about two thirds of what he had announced earlier, according to New Ulm City Manager Brian Gramentz.

It was four decades late, but on Saturday, thousands of Minnesota Vietnam Veterans got the welcome home they so richly deserved at the Capitol Mall.

A July 11 wedding is planned. Betz - Bruns The Free Press Angie Betz daughter of Ed and Connie Betz of Lake Crystal.

The New Ulm City Council was definitely in a lending mood Tuesday. Councilors approved a $250,000 Economic Development Revolving Loan Fund loan to Beacon Promotions, Inc., and they agreed to provide the Hermann Monument Society with a loan up to $20,000 if needed in completing its monument fence project.

A couple dozen special olympic athletes plus Brown County employees and New Ulm and Sleepy Eye police officers bicycled and walked from Sleepy Eye to New Ulm Tuesday to raise money for Special Olympics Minnesota.

The new fence for the Hermann Monument is supposed to be in place in time for the Hermann Victory celebration in September, but now a hitch has developed, the New Ulm Park and Recreation Commissioners learned Monday.

Despite detailed testimony from a Lafayette Township farmer Thursday in the Metro Square Building, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission unanimously accepted the New Ulm Public Utilities Commission Application for a Large Wind Energy Conversion System Permit for the New Ulm Wind Project in Nicollet County.

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