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...

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...

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 ...

Flooded basements, lost crops, helpful hands and questions about solutions all come on the heels of weather event no one will forget A dead fish. That’s what Brad Anderson found by the side of his driveway on South Main Street — washed up when waters pushed the Freeman Prairie Arboretum out of its b...

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...