This is looking south toward what was then South Dakota Mennonite College; the building that is today known as Music Hall is pictured in the distance.

This photo is from 1979 — 19 years after Calvin Kleinsasser started Kleinsasser Plumbing & Heating. The business is now in its third generation of operation; Morgan and Mitch Kleinsasser, grandsons of Calvin and sons of the late Collin Kleinsasser, run the business with their mom, Jane.  

This is a photo of Freeman looking to the northwest taken Friday morning, Feb. 10. The intersection pictured at the bottom is the corner of Highway 81 and the South County Road. The greater Freeman community was settled by pioneers who immigrated here from the Russia/Ukraine area beginning in 1874 and the town was named in 1879 with the expansion of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. The city was incorporated in 1883.

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DeWayne Graber, 84, of Freeman, S.D., passed away on February 4 at the Oakview Terrace in Freeman. A funeral service was held Wednesday, Feb. 8 at Bethany Mennonite Church in Freeman. DeWayne Larry Graber was born on March 23, 1938, to Albert and Mabel (Gering) Graber. DeWayne and his siblings, Lawrence, Terry, and Sharon, all grew up in Freeman on the family farm.

Glenn Edward Schoppert age 90 formerly of Sioux Falls, S.D., passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at Dells Nursing and Rehab Center in Dell Rapids, S.D. Glenn was born on Jan. 13, 1933, on his family’s farm near Freeman, S.D., to Edward and Louisa (Mutschelknaus) Schoppert. He was baptized on July 23, 1933, at his family church and confirmed on June 6, 1948, at the First Congregational Church in Scotland, S.D. He attended country school and graduated from Freeman High School in 1951.

This photo is without context and was brought to The Courier by a reader who thought it would be of interest. Members of the Freeman Fire Department appear to be taking part in an exhibition of sorts in which they are strapped up and ready to pull equipment. The local department was organized in 1902.

LaRuth Kramer, a Freeman resident and hobby seamstress, is featured in this week's 5-Minute Interview for a project she's been working on since fall. Read it online this afternoon and in print tomorrow.

This photo was posted on Facebook by Heritage Hall Museum on Feb. 6 as part of its weekly "Monday on Main" feature. Here's what the museum had to say about the picture.

DeWayne Graber, 84, of Freeman, S.D., passed away on Feb. 4 at Oakview Terrace in Freeman. A funeral service was scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 11 a.m. at Bethany Mennonite Church of Freeman. Visitation will begin one hour prior to the service on Wednesday at the church.