Most of the group of students and chaperones gather for a photo at a welcome center after crossing into Florida early Thursday afternoon. Freeman music students checked into their their hotel accommodates later that afternoon and spent the rest of their day swimming in the outdoor hotel pool, making a run to Target across the road and finding food (via either DoorDash, making it themselves in their rooms or visiting one of the nearby restaurants like Five Guys) prior to settling in for the night.

This is map that shows all the listings of those who are participating in The Courier's publicized citywide rummages sales in Freeman. A more detailed listing of names, locations and, in some cases, specific items, is included in the classified section published in this week's Area Wide Connection and Courier. A map and that listing will be available from The Courier office and both Freeman grocery stores starting Thursday. Sales will take place Friday and Saturday of this week.

Students, teachers and chaperones are just minutes away from departure for Orlando, Fla., Wednesday morning, June 7 for their seven-day excursion, much of which will be spent at Walt Disney World. Below is the story about the trip that appears in this week's Courier.   FREEMAN TO FLORIDA: An ultimate field trip Ever since March of 1985, music students from Freeman Junior-Senior High School have taken semi-regular excursions to Walt Disney World in Orlando for a different kind of education. They are again this week.

Kade and Kyle Schievelbein, brothers with Construction Signs, Inc., out of Sioux Falls, paint markings at Main and Fourth streets in downtown Freeman Tuesday morning. Many of the new lines being painted will replace the original markings that have faded since the trim work was done on the city's new roadway.

This photo was posted on Facebook as part of Heritage Hall Museum & Archives' weekly "Monday on Main" feature with the accompanying text:  

The golf team from Freeman Public, which won the school's second-ever boys region championship last month, stands for a photo prior to leaving for Watertown and the state golf meet to be played over two days Monday and Tuesday. The Flyers are heading north a day early for a practice round at Prairie Winds Golf Club, where the Class B championship rounds will be held. The girls are in Watertown, too, and are playing at Cattail Crossing.

This photo offers a good look at Freeman Prairie Arboretum and the adjacent Heritage Hall Museum & Archives campus as it was on a beautiful late-spring Saturday morning. Plans for the arboretum, a 40-acre vista of plants, grasses, ponds, walking paths and other features were announced 25 years ago, which construction beginning shortly thereafter.

This was a post on the Freeman Development - Experience Freeman SD Facebook page on Thursday acknowledging the opening of a new season at the Freeman Swimming Pool. By all accounts it was a busy day at the summer hotspot as hot weather had the place packed. The Freeman pool is open daily from 1 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The Freeman Academy/Marion 4x200 relay team of Karter Weber, Keaton Preheim, Maddox Kihne and Liam Ortman hangs out on the infield waiting to see their position following the preliminary race at the state track meet on Friday. The boys qualified for the final with the seventh-best time in the field and went on to finish seventh in Saturday's final.

A small group of volunteers, including Luke Allison, Dennis Lehmann and Abraham Cadillo, were working together Wednesday morning to plant 36 roses at the Prairie Rose Amphitheater that is part of the Freeman Prairie Arboretum. It's all part of ongoing maintenance, upkeep and improvements at the 40-acre spot that, this year, is marking 25 years since plans for the arboretum were first announced. Allison is a 2018 Freeman Academy graduate, and both he and Cadillo are recent graduates of Hesston College in Hesston, Kan., who are spending a bit of time in Freeman this summer.