A dusting of snow leftover from Wednesday helps decorate the city's decorations on the light poles lining Main Street Thursday morning. While the weather appears to have cleared out, the visual impact from this week's winter weather is fitting for a holiday season that is nearing its end.

That's Trey Maske putting a little muscle into his shoveling effort outside his family's Freeman home on Tuesday, as cleanup work from the Christmas Day winter storm continued.

There was some clean-up work to do across the area Tuesday morning following the first winter weather event of the season. While the area didn't receive the amounts some feared, several inches of snow fell during Christmas Day. Conditions were windy, too, and ice that came after dark made for slick ...

The warmth of a Christmas Eve service at the Freeman Missionary Church is shown through stained glass windows Sunday night — hours before snow began falling on what is going to be a memorable holiday.

The youth group from the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church prepare Christmas sacks during the Sunday school hour on Christmas Eve morning. The sacks will be handed out this evening following the program at the church — one of numerous services of the like that take place in churches around the world on th...

Fog hanging in the air made for a frosty Saturday morning leading up to Christmas. The image, made at the corner of College and Walnut streets, shows calm before the storm — or at least a major shift in the weather pattern. Moisture in the form of rain is expected to begin later this afternoon and c...

Steam from milk production at AMPI rises on what was a quiet Friday morning in downtown Freeman. Action is sure to pick up as the day wears on, however, as there is just one day left of the workweek (plus Saturday for those that are open) before Christmas.

The front of the boulevard at Freeman Academy is pictured on Thursday, Dec. 21 — the final day of classes for local schools before the holiday break.

Whose hands are those, and what is the story behind this scene? Readers of The Courier will find out in a sweet story that will be published on the front page of the Dec. 21 issue.