Last week marked the start of the summer season at Heritage Hall Museum & Archives. The Freeman museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and other times by appointment from May through September. That includes holidays. Summer visitors will discover several new exhibits, ad...

A lovely spring scene outside the Freeman Junior-Senior High School this past week.

Amber Bradley and students from Freeman Academy arrive at the Freeman Music Contest hosted by Freeman Public Schools Friday morning, May 2. The vocal and instrumental exhibition and competition debuted at Freeman Elementary in 2011 and is modeled after the music contest hosted by Tripp in the many d...

The Freeman Academy/Marion boys track and field team is pictured after winning the Great Plain Conference Meet in Scotland Tuesday, April 29. Watch the upcoming issue of The Courier for more on this, as well as an update on all local track and field teams.

One week has passed with the Freeman Community Development Corporation hosted a career fair for Freeman Public students in grades 6-12, and this photo is part of the coverage of that event that's included in this week's Courier. Pictured is Nathan Torberson, a service technician for Kleinsasser Heat...

A brand-new infield at Merchants State Bank Field soaks in the sun of a spring morning — a project of the Freeman Baseball Association. Chad Soulek and Lawns Unlimited rebuilt both the infield at the baseball diamond and also at the softball diamond to the north, wrapping up the weeks-long project l...

Unsettling clouds build in the sky to the south/southeast of Freeman near the 11 a.m. hour Monday — a day in which severe storms are in the forecast for parts of the Upper Midwest. While the most severe weather is expected in Minnesota, the local area could feel some fringe impact later in the day....

An American robin stands perched on a porch Sunday morning. Here's what allaboutbirds.org has to say about the familiar bird. The quintessential early bird, American Robins are common sights on lawns across North America, where you often see them tugging earthworms out of the ground. Robins are popu...

American flags, like the one at the Freeman Post Office, have been flying at half staff since April 22 in honor of Pope Francis, who died at his home in Casa Santa Marta in Vatican City on Monday, April 21. The funeral for the 88-year-old was held Saturday morning.

This is a familiar look for those who grew up — or lived — in the Freeman community from the late 1970s through the early 2010s, when Casey's General Store stood at the corner of Cherry Street and the jog connecting Sixth and Fifth streets. The convenience store opened in Freeman in 1979 and operate...