Per a tradition that goes back decades, students, staff and the larger Freeman Academy community gathered Sunday night, Aug. 17 to kick off another school year — one that comes 124 years after South Dakota Mennonite College was founded and 122 years after the first term of 1903. And the school’s tra...

Weiss, others speak out strongly against Dakota Protein Solutions When Timothy Weiss and his wife, Becky, decided to move to Freeman from Valley Springs a decade ago — bringing their metal art/fabrication business with them — they did so for one simple reason: Freeman was an attractive community too...

The public is expected to address the Freeman City Council tonight about concerns over the odor coming from Dakota Protein Solutions, the rendering plant that opened a mile southeast of Freeman last September. The agenda for the council’s Aug. 5 meeting shows a discussion about Dakota Protein Soluti...

An event that has been accurately described as a “neighborhood block party” returns this Saturday when the Freeman Volunteer Fire Department hosts its 12th annual Firehouse Rib Cook-Off at the Swimming Pool Park. The afternoon and evening to-do is the biggest annual fundraiser for the local fire dep...

Post 152 made history Friday night, Aug. 1 when they played in — and won — its first-ever state tournament game. Competing in the 2025 South Dakota Senior Legion Class B Tournament in Milbank, the second-year 79ers defeated the host team — Post 9 — 8-2 to advance in the winner’s bracket on Saturday....

Don’t look now, but school is right around the corner. With the Fourth of July long gone, another South Dakota Chislic Festival in the books and postseason baseball underway, attention will quickly shift to another year in the classrooms and all that goes with it — whether we like it or not. Freeman...

Good spirit, strong numbers through first part of day helps define South Dakota Chislic Festival, which will return again in 2027 JEREMY WALTNER - PUBLISHER Jennifer Hite isn’t from around here — you can tell by her thick southern drawl. No, she’s from Mississippi, and the only reason she is in the ...

Freeman Police Chief Barron Nankivel confirmed Tuesday afternoon, July 29 that a suspect had been taken into custody in conjunction with a theft at the Freeman Shopping Center. The incident came one month after three individuals stole a Polaris Ranger from Saarie Auto Body and were subsequently arre...

A heck of a season continues — in a heck of a way. Facing Tabor in the Region 4B championship and with a trip to state on the line, the Post 152 Junior Legion bagged an improbable 13-12 walk-off win in extra innings Tuesday evening, July 29 in Tabor. The 79ers, who went into the game with a 21-2 rec...

Day full of activities begins at 10 a.m.; 2025 will be the last year as an annual event as festival moves to every-other-year format Chislic: a dish made popular primarily in Hutchinson County derived from the Turkic word shashlik, or shashlik, which means ‘skewered meats,’ and traditionally served ...