The summer baseball season is underway for the local American Legion team — Post 152 based in Menno. Playing as the 79ers, the team includes players from Freeman, Menno, Scotland and Marion (towns all established in 1879, hence the team name), as well as Canistota. There are two 79ers teams: The Sen...

Planters like this one in front of Merchants State Bank dress up Freeman's Main Street for the summer season.

Among the weekly features in The Courier is the history section, which takes a look at the old news from the Freeman and Menno communities. This is the history from Freeman that is included with this week's issue. 100 Years Ago Freeman Courier June 1, 1905 The Freeman Mennonite College closed its se...

This image of Pioneer Hall was made using an etching created for letterpress printing in the 1950s. It is part of the Pine Hill Printery exhibit at Heritage Hall Museum & Archives and is included with a column written by Tim L. Waltner included in this week's Courier. The June 5 issue also includes ...

A home on Dewald Street is reflected in standing water left from an overnight rain that produced between a half-inch and three-quarters inch across the larger Freeman community. There's another chance of rain later this week.

This striking photo was posted to Facebook Monday, June 2 by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives as its weekly look back, along with the following information. This aerial photo (looking to the east) from about 60 years ago shows the Freeman Swimming Pool with the baseball field in the background. We kn...

The steeple at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Freeman is pictured with the sun in the soft haze of a Sunday morning — poor air conditions caused by raging wildfires north of the United States border. According to USA Today on May 31: The smoke is pouring in from blazes in Canada, including in the p...

Christopher Aasen baths in the Saturday morning sun as he walks the track in advance of the final day of the SDHSAA State Track & Field Championships. The Freeman High School senior is part of the Flyers' 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams that will compete today; FHS is also competing in the girls and boy...

Two-year-old Bella Beseman is on stopwatch detail while hanging out with her mom, Clara, and grandma, Suzanne Koerner, at the 2015 State Track Meet Thursday, May 30. The Freeman Academy/Marion coaches were among thousands gathered at Howard Wood Field for the first day of the three-day event. Action...

These Flyers — holding the awards they received at a sendoff Thursday morning — and others are off to Sioux Falls for the three-day South Dakota High School Activities Association State Track and Field Championships. Pictured are, back from left: Alaric Knittel (Shock Award), Tate Sorensen (Flyer) A...