This photo of the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church, or North Church, was taken during the Christmas season last December. The church is located 4 miles east of Freeman and two miles north of its sister congregation, the Salem Mennonite — or South — Church.

This undated photo offers a great look at the Freeman Depot, which was built after the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company extended its line to run through towns like Marion, Freeman and Menno in 1879 — a move that spurred considerable growth in those towns. The railroad ran for 100 years before it was abandoned, and the Freeman Depot was torn down.  

Freeman's water tower was shrouded in a light fog Friday morning following a mild winter weather event on Thursday that wasn't anything more than a nuisance. 

Mother Nature is delivering another round of winter weather Thursday as the entire state of South Dakota is in a winter weather advisory or winter storm warning. The Freeman area was expected to receive between 3 and 5 inches of snow through the day, with the possibility of several more inches through Saturday.

If you don’t know Kenny Wintersteen, you assuredly know people like him. Kind. Generous. Hard-working.

Freeman Elementary School will present its spring concert on Tuesday, March 14 at 7 p.m. in the high school gym. Each grade will present songs from Broadway musicals with grades 4-6 presenting the musical review, “Broadway Beat.” The concert is directed by Sonja Waltner. The public is invited to attend.

Amber Arlint, who grew up in Freeman as Amber Stern, sits on the Capitol steps in Pierre prior to the House session last week Thursday. Arlint, who lives with her husband and two sons in Sioux Falls, is representing District 12 and is featured in this week's Courier as the 5-Minute Interview. Read about her experience as a first-term lawmaker, including a surprising lesson about honey bees, online Wednesday and in print Thursday.

Today's "Monday on Main" feature posted on Facebook by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives offers a look at this historic building. The information accompanying the photo reads as follows: Today's Main on Monday feature shows a building that was a fixture at Fifth and Main in Freeman for half a century. It became home to Stucky Electric, Janver Stucky’s electric repair business, shortly after he opened at Fifth and Main in October 1974. Stucky had started his electric motor repair business on the family farm southeast of Freeman several years earlier.

The cross atop the steeple at the St. Paul Lutheran Church is pictured on a sunny late Saturday afternoon; the Freeman Missionary Church is shown in the distance. 

This photo from a century ago offers a look at what downtown Freeman looked like back then. While much have changed, several of the buildings shown on the right side of the picture are still standing, as is the Merchants State Bank clock located in the center of the photo.