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May 12, 2021
NEW ULM The New Ulm Airport Commission recommended no changes be made to the airport’s flight pattern, Tuesday.
Recently the City of New Ulm has been considering making changes to the flight pattern planes make before landing at the New Ulm airport, to reduce noise.
The New Ulm City Council and city staff have received many complaints regarding noise at the municipal airport. The city considered altering plane flight paths to reduce the noise. Currently, the flight path into New Ulm’s airport is to enter air space over New Ulm at a 45-degree angle coming from a southeastern direction. A pilot landing at the New Ulm airport will make a series of left-hand turns before approaching the runway. If the plane needs to circle before landing, it will all be done with left-hand turns. The left-hand turn pattern is the standard set by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). One option to reduce noise is to change the pattern to a right-hand turn pattern. This would re
NEW ULM Nine people have applied for the New Ulm mayor position.
The New Ulm mayor position became open following the resignation of Mayor Bob Beussman last month. On April 21, the city released application information for the position. The deadline to apply was 4 p.m. Sunday, May 9. By this deadline, nine New Ulm residents applied for New Ulm’s chief executive position.
This was something of a surprise to the city as applications for mayor were slow to start. On Friday, May 7, only two individuals had applied for the position, but seven additional applications were submitted over the weekend.
This is over twice the number of applicants that were submitted for the Second Ward City Council position last November.