The sign in front of East River Furniture on Freeman's Sixth Street gives those passing by a good chuckle. 

The Sunday morning sun shines on the Heritage Hall Museum & Archives campus and adjacent Prairie Arboretum in Freeman on April 23. Temperatures are expected to be more reasonable today and a warmup is in the forecast for the coming week.

This aerial photo from the 1960s was taken by Willard Waltner, is looking to the north and features the St. Paul Lutheran church not long after it was built. The property in the lower left corner was home to Dr. Irvin Kaufman and is currently occupied by the Mike and Emily Andersen family. The original wing of the Freeman Hospital is partially shown on the far left, with Sixth Street running across the top third of the image. The building identified by the No. 2 was Pine Hill Printery, the Palace Bowl is behind it and Freeman's baseball field is at the very top.  

Students at Freeman Academy examine a sapling being shown by kindergarten instructor Lynnelle Hofer during a special visit from members of Freeman's branch of Tree City USA Friday morning, April 21. The classroom visit by Lance Edwards, Charly Waltner, Micah Graber and Mark Harberts, who all have an association with ecology in the Freeman community, was designed to inform the children about the importance of trees and the management of trees in conjunction with Arbor Day, which will be observed next Friday, April 28.

Those wondering if that antique clock or that rare tool or that obscure lamp fixture that’s been sitting in their attic is worth anything will have the opportunity to find out when an Antique Road Show comes to the Big Red Barn on the Pioneer Acres grounds on the north side of Menno next week Sunday, April 30. The event will be free and open to the public and will begin at 2 p.m. the final Sunday of the month. Those wishing to have items examined and assessed by a panel of experts may start lining up at 1:30 p.m.

How do you measure a life well lived? Is it by service in the military before marriage and the 14 months he spent on a Navy ship in World War II without once setting food on land? Or what about all those quilts she made years later, first for their three children and then for their eight grandchildren, sometimes staying up until 1 a.m. threading the needle, long after he had gone to bed?

This was the view of the Merchants State Bank front entrance from The Courier office Thursday morning, as a wet morning turned from rain to snow. The cold, windy and wet weather was expected and prompted Freeman Public to cancel its Flyer Invitational scheduled to begin today at 1 p.m.

Because of the wet, windy and cool weather, the Flyer Invitational scheduled for Thursday, April 20 has been canceled.

A group of golfers gets ready to tee off from the fifth hole at Valley View Golf Course north of Freeman on Wednesday. The Cornbelt Conference junior high meet it is town and is expected to continue through much of the afternoon. Freeman Public is along the teams taking part.

The “in like a lion” phrase typically applies to early March, but it is certainly fitting in this, the third week of April, as cool and blustery conditions continue to make the weather conditions feel anything like “a lamb.” Winds are expected to be sustained for much of the week, with highs reaching only into the 50s through the weekend. The statue pictured here stands at Freeman’s Lions Park.