Pipestone County News

The Pipestone Chamber of Commerce is holding its Fourth Annual Chili Cook-off on Friday, Nov.

Several factors are converging this year to make the deer rut season even more dangerous for motorists.

In order to try to trim the 2010 budget, the Pipestone County Board set their sights last Wednesday on what they called nonessential services.

The two men who allegedly robbed a Pipestone store with a pellet gun and then led police on a high-speed chase before being caught in a cornfield around Hatfield, appeared in court for a second time, Tuesday, Oct.

No injuries resulted from an accidental house fire that broke out in Woodstock on Sunday, Oct.

"It was a nice summer day in 1939 that a group of ladies gathered to talk about their gardens, never dreaming that they would be doing it for half a century." So wrote Pipestone Garden Club member Colleen Hofelman in 1989 when the Pipestone Garden Club held its 50th anniversary Garden Party bash at the Calumet Inn.

Plans by the City of Woodstock to build a wind turbine would make it the first city in Pipestone County to own a municipal wind turbine.

All five bids for the remodeling project at the Pipestone County Medical Center came in significantly lower than expected at Mondaya s bid opening.

Two Hispanic men who led police on a high-speed chase late Tuesday afternoon, Oct.

Two hispanic males were arrested Tuesday for an armed robbery of the Cid's Latino Grocery Store in Pipestone, Minnesota.

Two men were apprehended late Tuesday afternoon after a report of an armed robbery led to a high-speed chase and then a search on foot through cornfields two miles south of Hatfield.

Before her mother, Viola Nelson, passed away, Beverly Mitchell of rural Jasper promised her that someday she would put all the articles she had submitted to the Pipestone County Star during the 1976 Bicentennial year into a book form.

Walking through the subterranean hallways and rooms of the Pipestone Performing Arts Center, CFLs light the way.

Open any nightstand drawer in nearly any hotel across America and in many parts of the world and there will be a Bible in it.

The Pipestone County Sheriffa s Department and Ambulance Department received authorization from the County Board Tuesday to purchase a $9,500 All Terrain Vehicle .

The Pipestone County Historical Society will host its Annual Fall Rummage on Thursday, Oct.

Representatives from Pipestone, Murray, Nobles, Rock, Redwood and Lyon Counties voted unanimously Thursday to hire public safety consulting firm GeoComm to help them proceed with a dispatch consolidation study.

Although there have been no confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu at the Pipestone County Medical Center, it is likely that the H1N1 virus is here.

There was simply no room at the inn for the unexpectedly large turnout at a presentation by Chad Lewis, author of "The Minnesota Road Guide to Haunted Locations." "I had no idea people in this town were so interested in ghosts.

On Saturday, Sept. 26, at 2 p.m., Chad Lewis will be at the Calumet Inn, in the dining room, to talk about his book, "The Minnesota Road Guide to Haunted Locations." The talk is co-sponsored by Meinders Community Library and the Pipestone County Historical Society.