A new era of high school basketball will begin tonight — Tuesday, Dec. 10 — when players from Scotland and Menno take the court together in their girls basketball season-opener. The Trappers will host Bridgewater-Emery in Menno, with the JV game set to begin at 6:15 p.m. The Freeman Public girls als...

Mother Nature provided this spectacular sunset to close out the weekend Sunday night, Dec. 8.

This was the scene inside the historic Bethel Church on the campus of Heritage Hall Museum & Archives Saturday afternoon, Dec. 7 for the museum's Christmas carol sing-along. Museum officials say they were pleased with the event that drew about two dozen people of all ages. Carols were led by Jeanne ...

The Reader's Theatre team from Freeman Academy performs "Mythically Mythical Myths" at the 2024 State Oral Interpretation Festival in Sturgis Friday morning, Dec. 6. The team of (from left) Jax Kaufman, Jada Buse, Arianne Fink, Ben Clark, Armando Miller and Madelyn Anderson won a superior for their ...

Freeman Academy oral interpretation coach Clara Beseman (left) works with her students outside Sturgis Brown High School Friday morning, Dec. 6 prior to their presentation of "Mythically Mythical Myths" in the category of Reader's Theatre. The SDHSAA State Oral Interpretation Festival is unfolding F...

These four returning letter-winners and the Freeman Academy/Marion girls will be the first to take the court this winter basketball season as the Bearcats host Parker tonight, Thursday, Dec. 5 in Marion. Pictured are, from left: FA senior Sieta Wiersema, Marion junior Kallie Johnson, Marion sophomor...

Wade Rupp, who works for the city of Freeman, hangs garland on one of the light polls on Main Street Wednesday morning, Dec. 4. Now that the calendar has flipped to the 12th month — and with temperatures turning cold — it's really beginning to look (and feel) a lot like Christmas.

Maria Paff, on behalf of the Freeman Network for Justice and Peace (FNJP), drops off items for The Courier's Toy Box Toy Drive that has been underway since early November. The FNJP committed $500 toward the drive, which will see dozens of items — from toys to games to clothes — distributed to famili...

You'd never know it was a cold Monday morning by the smile on Denise Handel's face as she clears snow from the sidewalk outside her place of employment, First Interstate Bank, on Dec. 2. Handel and the larger Freeman region was left to deal with the annoyance of a light snow that fell over the weeke...

The children of Box Elder couple Katie Vissers and Donald Morgan — in town to celebrate Thanksgiving with Vissers’ family — pose for a photo with Santa and Mrs. Claus on the stage of the Freeman Community Center at Hometown Christmas early Saturday afternoon, Nov. 30. Pictured with the jolly duo are...