I don’t know about anybody else who played soccer for Freeman Academy in the 1980s or 1990s, but when I hear the name “Dordt College” — or Dordt University, as it is known today — I immediately think of soccer. And that makes me immediately think of James Valley Christian. I don’t have a lot of “war...

Initiative between school and secretary of Office of Tribal Relations will include multi-cultural experiences; other schools invited to event JEREMY WALTNER  - EDITOR & PUBLISHER The public is invited to join students from Freeman Academy and surrounding schools to an Indigenous People’s Celebration...

Fifth Street in Menno will once again be alive with a stream of music and choreographed formations next Friday, Oct. 4 when another Menno Band Day takes the community by storm. The exhibition and competition will begin at 10 a.m. when the Wolves Marching Band leads a processional that will include 2...

Sure, the ability to harness and use the energy created by steam is central to the Pioneer Power Show, but Menno’s biggest two-day event of the year also demonstrates something else — an ability to go big.  In the mid-1800s, when the world figured out how to create and harness steam and convert it i...

Campus improvements costing estimated $4.2M would use existing tax levy School officials in Marion are looking more closely at a Plan B that would use the existing tax levy to update some of the areas on the district’s outdated campus, the oldest part of which is 110 years old. Superintendent Brian ...

Land on Fifth Street has been donated; funds are being raised A centennial celebration in Menno in 1979 was a direct link to the establishment of the Menno Heritage Museum a few short years later. Today, a new effort to further preserve the memories that matter to the larger Menno community is well ...

What began as a relatively unassuming exhibition on the Menno City Park nearly 40 years ago will return once again, not to the park, but to Pioneer Acres on the north edge of town, where the Pioneer Power Show continues to grow and flourish with every passing year. Exhibits and demonstrations will t...

150-YEAR CELEBRATION OF SETTLEMENT Place and time, then and now, honored by Swiss Mennonites Salem, Salem-Zion Mennonite churches come together to honor Anabaptist roots, migration journey of 1874 in weekend observance JEREMY WALTNER  - EDITOR & PUBLISHER There was assuredly great risk and no doubt ...

Overall totals dip slightly, but numbers at Freeman Public remain as high as they have been in more than 15 years The number of students attending Freeman Public Schools and Freeman Academy at the start of the 2024-25 school year was nearly identical to that of one year ago, with both school systems...

Activities begin Saturday evening; Salem-Zion Mennonite host church All are welcome to this weekend’s commemoration of the arrival of the Swiss-Volhynian Mennonites from Russia to this area 150 years ago. All events will be hosted by the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church located 4 miles east of Freeman on...