Pipestone News

Many people in Pipestone know Bud and Rona Johnston, husband and wife, president and treasurer of The Keepers of the Sacred Tradition of Pipemakers headquartered in a renovated depot on N. Hiawatha Ave.

Artist and performer Jackie Bird will be holding a variety show for children featuring hoop dancing and singing tonight at 7 p.m. at the Pipestone American Legion.

The city of Pipestone ended fiscal year 2008 with far less cash on hand than recommended by the state.

Pipestone Mayor Laurie Ness said, Thursday, that the city is preparing to make some difficult budget decisions that include program cuts and higher property taxes to recoup lost state aid, and to help build up the city's cash reserves.

Good times were had by all in Pipestone last weekend during the 20th annual Watertower Festival 2009.

The Department of Education reportedly denied a request by Pipestone Area Schools and other school districts in southwestern Minnesota to start the 2009 - 2010 school year on Monday, August 24.

Having run a couple of half-marathons in Sioux Falls, S.D. and Ohio over the last two years, Pipestonea s Theresa Draper decided earlier this year that she wanted to run a full marathon and signed up to compete in the 2009 Grandmaa s Marathon, June 20 in Duluth.

It's a matter of priorities, SRDC development planner John Shepard said. What kinds of emergencies are most likely to happen in Lincoln County, and how should city, township and county organizations prepare for them? Shepard and members of a disaster mitigation planning team from Lincoln County have been working together for about a year to try and ...

About 25 county and law enforcement officials from Pipestone, Murray, Nobles, Rock, Redwood and Lyon Counties met June 18 in Slayton to discuss the best way to proceed with the Public Safety Answering Point consolidation study.

About 23 children grabbed a box of chalk and let their creative visions run wild across the Main Street sidewalk in downtown Pipestone, Thursday evening, June 25.

About 115 Pipestone residents in the southwest section of the city have not had electrical power since 4:13 p.m., Friday, June 26.

Kindergarten through twelfth grade education was hit with a $1.77 billion deferral in payments and property tax recognition adjustment as a result of the state unallotments announced last week.

City challenged to recoup state cuts The city of Pipestone has not been spared the reductions in state aid that came down last week when Gov.

After a one-year break, the medallion hunt returns to the Watertower Festival. The hunt kicks off Monday, June 22.

Representatives from Pipestone, Murray, Nobles, Redwood, Lyon and Rock Counties will be meeting Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Human Services Building in Slayton to discuss the possible consolidation of emergency dispatch services.

A section of Pipestone's east-side industrial park will receive road and sewer improvements with excess revenue generated by two city TIF Districts.

The manure spill that occurred at Randy Patera s 650-head dairy farm south of Pipestone on May 5 and led to the contamination of the lake at Split Rock Creek State Park was the result of a design flaw in his cutting edge lagoon system that was built with the intentions of being environmentally sound.

The manure spill that occurred at Randy Patera s 650-head dairy farm south of Pipestone on May 5 and led to the contamination of the lake at Split Rock Creek State Park was the result of a design flaw in his cutting edge lagoon system that was built with the intentions of being environmentally sound.

A self-proclaimed World War II history nut, Ethan Baatz, the son of Jeff and Lisa Baatz of rural Jasper, will soon be going on a trip of a lifetime when he travels with his family to visit Pearl Harbor, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Minnesota and volunteer wish grantors.

Five best friends took their private act public when they debuted their band, a oeCritical Threat,a Saturday evening, June 6, before a crowd of about 30 people during an evening of hard rock and heavy metal.