This photo was taken during the 2024 Schmeckfest and shows volunteers making sausage inside Freeman Academy's maintenance building. The sale of frozen Schmeckfest Sausage returns today through a special summer sale. The popular German food will be available for purchase from 4 to 8 p.m. on the east ...

This reprint of a photo taken at the Turner County Fair in 1930 showing the East Freeman Band was published on the front page of the Freeman Courier 50 years ago this week. It was part of an announcement that the band would be convening once again for what would be one of the final concerts in its s...

Moana, an adventurous girl played by Abigail Bradley, and Maui, an eccentric islander played by Jax Kaufman, take to the Pacific in an effort to retrieve the heart of the goddess Te Fiti that, over 1,000 years before, had been lost to the sea. It was part of the Freeman Area Children's Choir's produ...

With Merchants State Bank Field pictured in the background, water stands in the parking area off the first base line Sunday afternoon. While much of the field itself has dried, it's still soft with standing water remaining in low areas, including behind home plate and both the first base and third b...

Max Unruh helps load ruined items from the family's flooded basement onto a trailer Saturday afternoon, less than 24 hours after torrential rains finally came to an end. The Freeman community was on the receiving end of about 14 inches of rainfall dating back to early Monday morning, June 17, most o...

A car passes through the flooded intersection of College and Walnut streets Thursday afternoon as heavy rains continue to pound the region. Already socked with more than 3 inches of rain from earlier in the week, the Freeman community has sustained significant additional moisture from rains that hav...

When Amber Bradley and Iwona Lewter reignited the Freeman Area Children’s Choir (FACC) in the summer of 2022, their plan was to produce two yearly events: A winter concert featuring the spirit of the holiday season and a spring/summer musical theater camp that would culminate with stage production t...

This was the scene in front of Sioux International — the local Case IH dealership located along Highway 81 just south of Freeman — early Monday afternoon, June 17, the result of a massive downpour. As expected, it was a wet start to the week as more than 2 inches of rain had fallen in the overnight ...

As expected, what could be a wet week got off to a very wet start as more than 2 inches of rain fell during the overnight hours Sunday into Monday, with rain continuing to fall during the morning hours. Active weather is continuing southwest of Mitchell and is moving across southeastern South Dakota...

What was supposed to be a haven for fishing was instead an empty Prairie Arboretum as gloomy weather prompted organizing officials to cancel the 18th annual Freeman Fishing Derby. An early morning shower made for wet grounds and light rain periodically during the later morning hours made it the corr...