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September 30, 2025

MADELIA HEALTH FOUNDATION CLINIC OPENING IN NEW ULM PUSHED BACK TO DECEMBER

The planned opening of Madelia Health’s New Ulm Clinic will not happen today (Wednesday).  Officials say the opening will now be sometime in December due to unspecified insurance reasons.  Madelia Health is planning to open a clinic in space in the Gislason and Hunter Law Office building at 2700 South Broadway in New Ulm due […]

September 30, 2025

COLD WEATHER RULE TAKES EFFECT WEDNESDAY

Minnesota’s Cold Weather rule takes effect Wednesday.  Xcel Energy wants to remind you that if you need help paying your energy bills this winter help is available.  The rule says that residential customers are protected from service disconnection from October 1 through April 30 if the disconnection would affect the customer’s primary heating source.  You […]

September 30, 2025

100 WOMEN WHO CARE SELECT FOOD SHELF

100 Women Who Care held their biannual event Sunday at the New Ulm Country Club and chose the New Ulm Area Emergency Food Shelf to receive $10,000.   The group selects one nonprofit to receive funding through individual $100 contributions from members.  Attendees nominate organizations by submitting names into a box and three contenders are randomly […]

September 30, 2025

TWO MORE BIRD FLU CASES REPORTED

Two more commercial turkey operations reportedly have been hit with bird flu.  The Minnesota Board of Animal Health says they diagnosed highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of nearly 33,000 birds in Le Sueur County Friday and a flock of just under 12,000 birds in Blue Earth County, the second reported case in that […]

September 30, 2025

SUSPECT CHARGED IN FATAL MAPLEWOOD HIT-AND-RUN DROVE TO SLEEPY EYE

A suspect in a fatal hit-and-run Friday in Maplewood allegedly drove over 100 miles to Sleepy Eye to a job site after the crash.  Court documents say 46-year-old Jose Ronald Hernandez-Pineda is accused of hitting  31-year-old Abdul Bakr Jafar, who was pronounced dead at the scene.  A newspaper delivery driver captured photos of the van […]

September 29, 2025

Rick Eckstein and Harvey Stadick

German Bohemian Heritage Society board members, Rick Eckstein and Harvey Stadick discuss the upcoming Germanic-American Day parade, kicking of the first weekend of Octoberfest this Saturday.                                                           […]

September 29, 2025

FIRE AT OAKDALE GOLF CLUB NEAR BUFFALO LAKE

Renville County officials are investigating a fire at Oakdale Golf Course near Buffalo Lake Friday night.  Authorities say a fire damaged a private golf cart rental building.  No injuries were reported and a cause is being investigated.                            

September 29, 2025

TWO HURT IN SIBLEY COUNTY CRASH

The Sibley County Sheriff’s Office was called to a collision on County Road 16 in Washington Lake Township Sunday evening at 8:18 pm.  A GMC Yukon driven by 27-year-old Jade Roemeling of Hamburg was traveling north on County Road 16 when he collided with a John Deere Tractor pulling a wagon that was driven by […]

September 29, 2025

DEADLY FIRE TRUCK CRASH INVESTIGATION CONTINUES

Authorities in southwestern Minnesota continue to investigate a deadly firetruck crash after the Lakeview High School homecoming events.  The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff’s Office says a Wood Lake fire truck flipped on its side Friday night near Cottonwood.   The report says a passenger – 43-year-old Steven Remiger of Wood Lake – was trapped under the […]

September 26, 2025

TWO HURT IN HEAD-ON COLLISION NEAR LAKE CRYSTAL

The state patrol was called to a head-on collision between a Honda Pilot and a Chevrolet Suburban Thursday morning at 7:45 on Blue Earth County Road 9 and 515th Avenue near Lake Crystal.  The Honda was driven by 59-year-old German Anibal Ortega and the Suburban was driven by 44-year-old Deisy De Leon Esqueda of rural […]
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