1+ week, 4+ day ago   (625+ words) NEW ULM -- Twin Cities indie rock band The Dead Century closed the 2026 Concerts in the Park season Thursday night at German Park -- the 13th and final Thursday evening show of the summer. Thursday's set mixed originals with familiar covers. Band members…...

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, 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   (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, 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   (715+ words) NEW ULM - The Minnesota Gladiolus Society celebrated America's 250th birthday during its Brown County Fair show last weekend. The New Ulm Civic Center south arena was filled with 359 individual gladiolus spikes and 70 gladiolus arrangements all based around the theme of American…...