4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (568+ words) What could be worse than a tornado devastating a community? That is the question writer James Arlen Anderson poses in his debut novel, "The Storm Next Door." Anderson is a career journalist, living in Burnsville. He is the author of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (999+ words) NEW ULM -- Forty porcelain cow creamers from a 200-piece collection are on display on Minnesota Street as part of The Smallest Museum in Minnesota exhibit. The collection comes from Watertown artist Dani Daniels. “My collection started 25 years ago,” Daniels said....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (638+ words) NEW ULM - The recent death of country singer Dolly Parton has drawn new interest in her life and the causes that meant the most to her -- specifically, her Imagination Library program that promoted literacy. The Imagination Library began in 1995 in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (914+ words) NEW ULM -- “If anybody who wasn’t born in Minnesota could become a Minnesotan, that’s what happened to the old man.” That is how Dale Strength described his father, Texas Bill Strength, Saturday morning at the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (696+ words) NEW ULM -- People gathered for live music, food, and community all day Saturday for the fourth year of Party by the Pond. Party by the Pond is an annual community gathering that falls on the last weekend before school starts....

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (52+ words) New Ulm Journal The Brown County Fair was a time for Marty Robbins and the gorilla girl, a time for the sounds of the demolition derby and the lights of the midway at night. It was a time for… 303 N....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1016+ words) NEW ULM -- Author Kristy Halvorsen spoke at Lykke Books Thursday about her memoir, “Perfect Unfolding: Seven Years of Life-Changing Solo Adventure, One Year That Broke Me Open.” The event included a reading, audience questions, and a book signing. Halvorsen is…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (447+ words) SLEEPY EYE -- A Reykjavik, Iceland businessman who attended Sleepy Eye High School as a foreign exchange student in 1992 and 1993 returned for Summerfest last weekend. Thorbjorn "B. J." Olafsson lived with the Pat and Earle Stevermer family of Sleepy Eye 34 years ago as…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (905+ words) NEW ULM -- Songwriter Doug Noble presented Legends, Heroes, Ghosts and Gangsters: The History of Minnesota in Music at the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame last month. Noble created the project with hall of fame board member Neal Bond to bring…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) NEW ULM -- Woodstone Senior Living and Orchard Hill raised $4,912 for the Alzheimer’s Association at their second annual fundraiser Monday. ​The total topped last year’s amount despite lower attendance. ​”Our attendance was lower than last year, but the support was even…...