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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ONCE UPON A TIME
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ONCE UPON A TIME
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 8, 2024
This photo was taken on July 3, 1915 and shows the Independence Day festivities that year. The image was posted by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives on its Facebook page with the accompanying information: This photo was made looking to the southeast from the west side of the 200 block - today the bloc...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SUNDAY IN THE PARK
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SUNDAY IN THE PARK
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 7, 2024
This was the scene Sunday morning at the Menno City Park as area residents gathered for the Menno-Olivet Ministerial Association Community Patriotic Worship Service. The July 7 service opened with the national anthem and included other music like God Bless America and the hymns God of our Fathers an...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: PUBLISHER’S DESK
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: PUBLISHER’S DESK
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 3, 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent last week at Heritage Hall Museum & Archives watching local youngsters take in what was probably a first for most of them — a local museum that is nothing short of a treasure. More than 30 boys and girls and adult chaperones were there as part of the Freeman Pub...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: FRIDAY FLAG
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: FRIDAY FLAG
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 5, 2024
The Friday morning sun lights up an America flag at Printed Impressions on Freeman's Sixth Street July 5 — one day after the country celebrated its independence from the British.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: FOURTH OF JULY FUN
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: FOURTH OF JULY FUN
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 4, 2024
Kyle Munkvold takes aim with a water balloon as the Menno Mad Frogs float rolls down Fifth Street toward the end of Thursday's Fourth of July parade. The baseball team was one of 90 entries in what was another spectacular Independence Day parade that drew more than 2,000 people from all across the r...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ALL LINED UP
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ALL LINED UP
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 2, 2024
The west side of the 300 block of Main Street in Freeman was busy on Tuesday morning, with many visiting the downtown grocery store, Jamboree Foods. It was 30 years ago this week that owner Bob Pidde was making plans to temporarily close his previous store and move into the new location, which had s...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NIGHT LIGHTS
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: NIGHT LIGHTS
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 1, 2024
The Freeman Area Veterans Memorial is pictured in the foreground as fireworks light up the June 30 night sky over Freeman. It was the grand finale of what was a fun day as hundreds converged on the ball field grounds for the community's Independence Day Celebration. The Marion/Freeman Rebels youth b...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: AROUND THE FIELD
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: AROUND THE FIELD
By Jeremy Waltner 
June 30, 2024
The sun was shining on a gorgeous Sunday morning in Freeman and the scene was set on the grounds of Merchants State Bank Field as the community anticipates another Independence Day celebration. Action gets underway at 12 p.m. with summer recreation and youth VFW baseball games at both the softball a...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SATURDAY SELECTION
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: SATURDAY SELECTION
By Jeremy Waltner 
June 29, 2024
This photo was posted on Heritage Hall Museum & Archives' Facebook page this past Monday as part of its weekly look back. Here's the description: For more than four decades, bowling was a popular sport in Freeman and Palace Bowl was the place to be. Orville Ellwein opened Palace Bowl Bowling Lanes i...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ADVENTURES IN GEODES
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ADVENTURES IN GEODES
By Jeremy Waltner 
June 28, 2024
Katelyn Anderson leans in a for a closer look as Terry Waterman reveals the inside of a geode — a rock featuring a cavity lined with crystals made up of other mineral matter. It was part of an excursion to Heritage Hall Museum & Archives taken on by elementary-aged students involved in the Freeman P...
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By Jeremy Waltner 
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Weiss, others speak out strongly against Dakota Protein Solutions When Timothy Weiss and his wife, Becky, decided to move to Freeman from Valley Sprin...
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There were a number of key takeaways from the Turner County Board of Adjustment’s Aug. 19 meeting in which board members reviewed the conditional use ...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: POLITICAL ACTION
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: FULL HOUSE
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Here is another photo from the Aug. 19 meeting of the Turner County Board of Adjustment that drew more than 40 residents of Freeman, all there to repr...
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