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By Jeremy Waltner

August 20, 2025

This shows the overflow crowd standing outside the room where the Turner County Board of Adjustment met on Tuesday for a hearing about non-compliance ...

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DPS SITUATION: RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT; STERN APOLOGIZES; BOARD TO MEET AGAIN SEPT. 23

By Jeremy Waltner

August 19, 2025

There were a number of key takeaways from the Turner County Board of Adjustment’s Aug. 19 meeting in which board members reviewed the conditional use ...

‘PATH FORWARD’ THEME AS FA STARTS NEW SCHOOL YEAR

By Jeremy Waltner

August 20, 2025

Per a tradition that goes back decades, students, staff and the larger Freeman Academy community gathered Sunday night, Aug. 17 to kick off another sc...

sports

BLACKSOX MAKE A RUN, FALTER IN THE END

By Jeremy Waltner

August 20, 2025

Jake Weier has spent 16 seasons playing on Freeman’s amateur baseball team, the Blacksox, and eight of those seasons have also been spent as manager. ...

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: FIRST-DAY SMILES

By Jeremy Waltner

August 19, 2025

Emily Stern takes a photo of third grader Willow and kindergartener Asher in front of the historic stone marker outside Freeman Elementary on Tuesday ...

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PHOENIX NO. 5 IN FIRST CLASS 9AA POLL

By Jeremy Waltner

August 18, 2025

The Freeman/Marion/Freeman Academy Phoenix will open their final season as a cooperative as the fifth-ranked team in Class 9AA football. The South Dak...

TURNER COUNTY BOARD TO REVIEW DPS PERMIT AUG. 19

By Jeremy Waltner

August 14, 2025

The Turner County Board of Adjustment will meet Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 11 a.m., with a review of the permit granted to Dakota Protein Solutions first on ...

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: LINK TO FELLOWSHIP

By Jeremy Waltner

August 18, 2025

Freeman Academy constituents enjoy food and fellowship in The Link connecting Pioneer Hall and Sterling Hall Sunday evening, Aug. 17 — a precursor to ...

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SUNDAY SELECT

By Jeremy Waltner

August 17, 2025

This photo — taken decades ago — shows the south end of Freeman and the Freeman Junior College and Academy campus. That includes Pioneer Hall located ...

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: GAME TIME!

By Jeremy Waltner

August 16, 2025

The 2025 fall sports season officially gets underway today — Saturday, Aug. 16 — as the Freeman Academy soccer team hosts Dakota Valley in a match tha...

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‘THIS HAS TURNED INTO AN ABSOLUTE HELL’

By Jeremy Waltner

August 12, 2025

Weiss, others speak out strongly against Dakota Protein Solutions When Timothy Weiss and his wife, Becky, decided to move to Freeman from Valley Sprin...

news

POLICE INVESTIGATING THEFT OF ‘LARGE ABOUNT OF MONEY’ AT FREEMAN SHOPPING CENTER

By Jeremy Waltner

July 24, 2025

Freeman Police Chief Barron Nankivel confirmed Tuesday afternoon, July 29 that a suspect had been taken into custody in conjunction with a theft at th...

CITY ATTORNEY: TURNER COUNTY HAS AUTHORITY OVER DAKOTA PROTEIN SOLUTIONS

By Jeremy Waltner

August 5, 2025

Dakota Protein Solutions (DPS), the Turner County rendering plant located a mile-and-a-half southeast of Freeman that has drawn public outcry on socia...

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: POLITICAL ACTION

By Jeremy Waltner

July 27, 2025

United States Representative Dusty Johnson, left, visits with former South Dakota Legislator Frank Kloucek at the South Dakota Chislic Festival (SDCF)...

breaking news

DPS SITUATION: RESIDENTS SPEAK OUT; STERN APOLOGIZES; BOARD TO MEET AGAIN SEPT. 23

By Jeremy Waltner

August 19, 2025

There were a number of key takeaways from the Turner County Board of Adjustment’s Aug. 19 meeting in which board members reviewed the conditional use ...

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