Ted Pidde Sr., right, is pictured with Bill Morefeld, center, and Leo Laber inside the Freeman Meat Market in this undated photo. Morefeld purchased the building in 1930, with Laber becoming manager in 1948. Laber purchased the operation in 1974 — one year after Pidde assumed ownership of Ferd’s Mea...

Marnette Hofer, archivist and executive director at Heritage Hall Museum & Archives, welcomes a nice crowd to the Sunday afternoon program exploring the ins and outs of the one-room country school, which once upon a time dotted the rural landscape. Watch for a report on the program online later this...

This photo was posted on Facebook by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives in advance of its Sunday afternoon program on one-room school houses. Here is what was included with the post: One-room country schools weren't air conditioned, but the Bethel Church, where we're hosting a 2 p.m. program this after...

This photo was taken by Chauni Glanzer from her farm northwest of Freeman around 9:45 p.m., as a line of storms moved from west to east across eastern South Dakota. While severe weather was part of the system, the Freeman community received only wind and rain — another 0.40 locally.

Jim Smidt, an employee of the city of Freeman who has helped manage the recycling center for the past decade, moves a container back into place Friday morning. Smidt says he is at the Cedar Street facility six days a week "and sometimes on Sundays" tending to the many recyclables dropped off at the ...

It was a wet and busy Main Street in Freeman Thursday morning following another round of overnight showers, this time about 1.5 inches of rain in town. That makes for nearly 4 inches in town in the past week. It appears as though the wet pattern will clear out after today with temperatures in the 80...

The unstable weather pattern is reflected in a complex sky Wednesday morning as a large weather system continues to cycle over the Upper Midwest. Freeman has received about 2 1/2 inches of rain the past few days with more moisture and storms expected on and off into Thursday. And it's warming up aga...

Pictured is the Fairview School, which is believed to be the second home of a bell now on display at Heritage Hall Museum & Archives. Here’s what the museum said about it in a Facebook post shared Monday. Believed to have originally hung in the Zion Mennonite Church (Spitziche Kirche) that was destr...

The high heat of the weekend coupled with the 2 inches of rain received Sunday night into Monday has the Freeman Prairie Arboretum thriving with growth, color and fullness as we have entered the later days of June, with the Summer Solstice — June 21 — offering the most daylight hours of the year....

It was as hot on Saturday as they said it was going to be, with 102 degrees registering on the CorTrust Bank clock around 4 p.m. Sunday will be another scorcher, with temperatures again upward of 100 degrees before dropping to a more reasonable high on Monday. Storms are also in the forecast for the...