David Walter goes up and gets a pass from Riley Tschetter to complete a two-point conversion in Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy's dominating win over Bon Homme Friday night. The Class 9AA fourth-ranked Phoenix bounced back from a slow defensive start that resulted in an early Cavaliers' touchdown by ...

Freeman's Main Street is pictured at the end of a work day Thursday, Aug. 28.

This photo was posted by Freeman Regional Health Services on its Facebook page Wednesday, Sept. 27 with the following: We had an amazing time in Freeman and Menno for our first bike safety ice cream giveaways! So many kids made the smart/safe choice of wearing helmets to school. Here's more on the p...

Wednesday morning broke with a beautiful sky and coolish temperatures that hinted at fall — just part of a string of gorgeous weather dating back to the weekend. And that is expected to continue, with highs in the 70s and low 80s through the week.

This photo was taken last Tuesday, Aug. 19 and shows Freeman Elementary Principal Katie Juhnke welcoming students back for another year of school. This is the first full week of the 2025-26 term and students and staff are settling into a routine, as are the sports teams. Football and soccer are both...

This photo of Keyen Fischer running the ball during Scotland/Menno's opening game last Friday against Gregory is included in this week's Courier along with a preview of both the Trappers' and the Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy's upcoming season. Online Tuesday; in print on Wednesday. PHOTO COURTESY ...

In a scene 50 years in the making, players who were part of the 1975 Freeman High School boys basketball championship team gather at the home of their coach, Ron Bennett, in Salem Saturday night and celebrate with a toast. Bennett, pictured in the blue shirt right of center, had been saving a bottle...

Phoenix football players celebrate with Luke Peters after the senior returned an interception for game-clinching touchdown late Friday night, Aug. 22 — sealing a 20-6 win at Parkston. No 5-ranked Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy used a stout defensive effort and just enough offense to secure the big W...

The local CBS affiliate out of Sioux Falls, KELO-TV, featured the Freeman community through the lens of Heritage Hall Museum & Archives Thursday night, Aug. 21. The angle was how multiple faith communities came together to establish the settlement that would come to be known as Freeman in 1879 and f...

Here is another photo from the Aug. 19 meeting of the Turner County Board of Adjustment that drew more than 40 residents of Freeman, all there to represent the complaints about the odor coming from Dakota Protein Solutions. Here's a summary of where the issue has been, where it stands and where it m...