6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (627+ words) The free outdoor event offered a well-rounded slate of regional talent, featuring acoustic story-driven country during the afternoon and a full-band rock-and-country set in the evening, alongside local food truck vendors and lakeside recreation. Jessi Havemeier, manager at Shirley's Park,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1096+ words) NEW ULM -- The new collections curator at the Brown County Historical Society did not start out planning to work in a museum when he began college in Northern Iowa. Logan O’Neill, 24, came to the Brown County Museum in March with…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (536+ words) Fifth grader Brecken Kral was able to get is locker open without any issues Monday, on his first day in middle school. Kral was disappointed summer break had to end but was excited to be in a new building this…...

3+ week, 3+ hour 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, 1+ day ago   (456+ words) SLEEPY EYE -- A Winnebago man drove an old school bus that sat in a grove on a rural Winnebago farm for 70 years before he converted it into a rat rod and drove it to the Sleepy Eye Summerfest Classic Car…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (439+ words) New Ulm Journal Dittbenner’s Spring Creek Dairy is Brown County Farm Family of the YearJoleen The operation includes 500 acres of corn, soybeans, alfalfa and 120 Holstein cows. Joleen and Craig Dittbenner stand in their Holstein cow barn north of Sleepy Eye....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (538+ words) NEW ULM – Superintendent Sean Koster led a tour around the four New Ulm Public School buildings to highlight summer renovations Thursday. Money for renovations came from Minnesota LTFM (Long-Term Facilities Maintenance) funds. These funds are strictly for upkeep, and cannot…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1008+ words) NEW ULM -- The Brown County Historical Society held its Heritage Chores Camp last Thursday at the Kiesling House on Minnesota Street in New Ulm. The camp teaches children who have completed kindergarten through fifth grade what a typical day was…...

3+ week, 5+ 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…...