These 13 candidates will be on their respective ballots when the local April 9 election rolls around. This week's Courier dedicates a considerable amount of space for a candidate Q&A with those seeking office. Pictured are, top from left: mayor candidates Cody Fransen and Michael Walter and Freeman ...

A Freeman school bus trimmed in snow is reflected in one of the mirrors Tuesday morning. It's another rough day of weather for the area as high winds and cold temperatures make for difficult travel conditions one day following the March 25 spring winter storm that brought ice and several inches of s...

Those eager for spring weather are going to have wait a while as the region is getting hammered with a March winter storm. Plows were out in the city of Freeman early, but the weather worsened considerably after 9 a.m. with a heavy band of snow churning across most of Hutchinson and Turner counties....

The St. Paul Lutheran Church of Freeman is pictured on a cold, snowy Sunday morning — a trend of moisture that is expected to continue over the course of the next couple of days. While the moderate-to-heavy snow that marked the first hours of daylight tapered off, rain is expected this afternoon wit...

This photo gallery offers a look back at Schmeckfest's "Shrek the Musical" presented by the Freeman community March 14-16.

Yes, that's snow on the awning of the Freeman Public Library following an overnight dusting. A wet stretch of weather is on the way with rain and snow in the forecast through the weekend and next Monday and into Tuesday, and temperatures aren't expected to get above the 30s for the foreseeable futur...

This photo of Kerri Swensen dressing the lettuce salad served at the Schmeckfest is included in this week's coverage of the Freeman community's big event; "It's a feeling like none other," Swensen says of tossing the salad with her gloved hands. The Courier's reporting on the 63rd Schmeckfest includ...

This is part of a display in front of the Et Cetera Shoppe on Freeman's Main Street and suggests that warmer days are on their way. They are — but it's going to be a while. While today's temperatures on the first day of spring are expected to be mild, colder wet weather is on the way through the wee...

This picture was posted Heritage Hall Museum & Archives' Facebook page on Monday as its weekly look back. Here's the text to go along with it. This building at 440 S. Main – today warehouse space for Mr. G's Tires – was built in 1916. Charles J. Schrag erected the first brick garage for service work...

Marlo Ortman helps himself to the ethnic foods on the Schmeckfest buffet during the meal early Saturday evening, March 16. It was the second and final day of the 63rd "festival of tasting" and a busy one at Freeman Academy — the school for which the fundraiser has been held since 1959. The Schmeckfe...