The Pipestone Area Schools’ girls basketball team celebrated a successful season with an awards program on Tuesday, March 3. “We fell short of what we wanted,” PAS head coach Grant Everson said as the Arrows lost during the Section 3AA South subsection semifinals to St. James Area, 72-56. Still, PAS showed massive improvement during the 2025-26 campaign with 23 wins — which is reportedly the second-best total in school history. Everson discussed the sheer number of quality Arrows’ victories, which included a 67-55 season-ending victory over Section 3A champion Central Minnesota Christian. The Bluejays are seeded sixth for this week’s...

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Four Pipestone Area Schools’ wrestlers were named to the All-Big South Conference team. The four are multi-time state champion Miklo Hernandez, state fourth-place finisher Mason Fruechte, 121-pounder Lane Fruechte and Joannacrystal Perez-Garcia (who competes in the girls’ 100-pound class). These are performance-related results based on what these wrestlers accomplished at the Big South Conference meet conducted on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the R/A Facility in Marshall. “I am proud of all of them able to be all-conference,” PAS head coach Paul Young said in a short telephone interview with The Pipestone County Star on Monday, March 9. Young said all...

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BROOKINGS, S.D. — Former Pipestone Area Schools’ track and field standout Aiden Voss is back competing for South Dakota State University. Voss, per the SDSU website, is listed as a junior academically but a sophomore athletically. During the indoor season, Voss established a new personal-best time in the 60-meter dash at the Jim Emmerich Alumni Meet on Jan. 24. Voss clocked in with a time of 7.36 seconds. He set a new benchmark in the 60-meter hurdles (8.49) at the University of South Dakota Alumni Meet on Jan. 17, which was good enough for fourth place during a preliminary event....

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The Pipestone County Historical Society (PCHS) held its annual meeting Saturday, March 7 at the Pipestone County Museum. The event provided a look back at last year’s activities and a look ahead to what’s coming up this year. According to information provided at the meeting, the Museum served 7,632 people in 2025. Visitors came from 24 states and four countries. The Museum offered 134 educational programs and 4,349 people attended Museum programming. The PCHS had 344 members. A total of 513 objects were offered to the Museum collection in 2025, of which 18.7 percent were accepted. Pipestone County Museum Executive...

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Registration is underway for the Pipestone Area Soccer League’s spring 2026 season. The program is for boys and girls from kindergarten through eighth grade residing in and around Pipestone. Teams will be organized by grade and skill level. The cost is per player, which will include the cost of a jersey. Venmo is a listed payment option. Practices will be conducted at the new JBS SportsPlex in the Paulsen Athletic Complex. Games will take place on Saturday mornings in late April and early May, with the tournament slated for May 16. Each player must fill out a registration form....

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Pipestone Area Youth Fastpitch has announced sign-ups for the organizations summer tournament schedule. PAYF is expected to play in the following tournaments on the corresponding days. There will be a tournament in Pipestone on May 30. Other tournaments are set for Sioux Falls, S.D., June 5-7; Marshall, June 13-14; Madison, S.D., June 19-20; Luverne, June 26-28; Marshall, July 10-12; Sioux Falls, S.D. and Fargo, July 17-19. Girls born on or after Sept. 1, 2014, will be considered 10-under. Girls born on or after Sept. 1, 2012, are going to be on the 12-under squad. There may also be a 14-under...

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The 20th annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Woodstock is planned for Saturday, March 14. Festivities will begin at 11:30 a.m. when the Woodstock First Responders will hold a burger feed fundraiser at the fire hall. There will be burgers, hot dogs, cookies, chips and water available until the parade begins. Parade participants will line up at noon by the elevator and the parade will begin at 1 p.m. Staci O’Hearn-Burmeister, the organizer of the parade, said anyone is welcome to join the parade and asked that people call Staci’s Bar and Grill at 507-777-4136 ahead of time to register....

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TO THE EDITOR: As a downtown business owner in Pipestone, Minn., I support the concerns raised about paving CSAH 25. Main street businesses depend on people traveling through Pipestone. A paved road that could easily function as a bypass risks sending traffic around our town instead of into it. That is the last thing our small businesses need. Visitors often discover our shops, restaurants, and historic downtown simply because they pass through. When traffic disappears, so do opportunities for local businesses to grow and thrive. Before this project moves forward, there should be careful study of the potential economic impact...

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A while back I heard Pipestone Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Erica Volkir mention to the Pipestone City Council that 2026 was the city of Pipestone’s 150th anniversary. For those who like complicated words, that’s the sesquicentennial. That certainly seemed like a noteworthy milestone, so I cracked open the old Pipestone County History book to do some research. There I found that the village of Pipestone was incorporated on Feb. 10, 1881. That date also came up as I was looking through the Days Gone By section of old issues of the Pipestone County Star for our daily One...

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TO THE EDITOR: I was raised in Pipestone, then moved to the Minneapolis area in the 1980’s. I currently reside there and return to Pipestone to visit family. While living in Minneapolis I have had the honor and privilege to get to know many immigrant families, both from living in my neighborhood and while working in the school district. I have heard many of their stories and admire all of them for their bravery in even coming to our country. They didn’t want to leave their countries and their extended families. They did so to make a better life for...

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