Yes, that's snow on the awning of the Freeman Public Library following an overnight dusting. A wet stretch of weather is on the way with rain and snow in the forecast through the weekend and next Monday and into Tuesday, and temperatures aren't expected to get above the 30s for the foreseeable futur...

This photo from 1962 was reprinted in the Freeman Courier 50 years ago this week and shows the Freeman Flyers boys basketball team after winning seventh place at the State B Tournament. Picture are, from left: Coach Don Diede, Jim Smidt, Dennis Wollman, Jim Gullickson, Ray Schultz, Bob Schamber, Gar...

This photo of Kerri Swensen dressing the lettuce salad served at the Schmeckfest is included in this week's coverage of the Freeman community's big event; "It's a feeling like none other," Swensen says of tossing the salad with her gloved hands. The Courier's reporting on the 63rd Schmeckfest includ...

This is part of a display in front of the Et Cetera Shoppe on Freeman's Main Street and suggests that warmer days are on their way. They are — but it's going to be a while. While today's temperatures on the first day of spring are expected to be mild, colder wet weather is on the way through the wee...

This picture was posted Heritage Hall Museum & Archives' Facebook page on Monday as its weekly look back. Here's the text to go along with it. This building at 440 S. Main – today warehouse space for Mr. G's Tires – was built in 1916. Charles J. Schrag erected the first brick garage for service work...

Marlo Ortman helps himself to the ethnic foods on the Schmeckfest buffet during the meal early Saturday evening, March 16. It was the second and final day of the 63rd "festival of tasting" and a busy one at Freeman Academy — the school for which the fundraiser has been held since 1959. The Schmeckfe...

Corey Miller, a community naive, rural Freeman resident and pastor of the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church, loads up a serving bowl of green bean soup as he serves a table during Friday night's Schmeckfest supper. Just under 1,000 guests took in the traditional German meal on the first night of the 63rd ...

Duane Ries and his daughter Brittney weigh and price rings of Schmeckfest sausage Friday morning in preparation for the influx of guests that will come through the line to purchase one of the festival's most popular ethnic foods. Schmeckfest officially begins at 1 p.m. today and will continue throug...

That's Joshua Hofer in the makeup chair and Emmit Ortman behind him prior to Wednesday night's final dress rehearsal for "Shrek the Musical." Hofer plays the title role and Ortman the part of Young Shrek in the production that is being presented this week in conjunction with the 63rd Schmeckfest. Th...

Members of the Schmeckfest musical program committee and students at Freeman Academy set up seating in the Pioneer Hall auditorium in preparation for Schmeckfest — specifically, this year's production of "Shrek the Musical." While the 63rd festival first begins on Friday afternoon, opening night of ...