This is what the landscape looked like facing south across the South County Road Friday morning. With a lot of moisture hanging in the air, fog and icy roads have been the reality for those out and about, although the temperature remains mild for January.

This photo appeared in the Freeman Courier 30 years ago this week and shows the Freeman Flyers football cheerleaders who placed second at the inaugural Skyforce Dance Challenge at the Sioux Falls Arena held Jan. 15, 1994. Pictured are, from left, Katie Ellinger, Amber Zachariasen, Deana Benjamin and...

It's been a long rebuild, but the Freeman boys are finally bringing back a brand of basketball that has fans on their feet For those who have been paying even the slightest bit of attention to local high school basketball, the winters of recent memory have been long and hard for the Freeman Public b...

It took the Menno School Board of Education under three minutes to approve an expanded sports cooperative with neighboring Scotland. With nobody offering public comment and no discussion among board members or administration, the motion to include boys and girls basketball, track and wrestling to th...

Boys basketball teams from Freeman Public and Parker are pictured with the game officials prior to Monday's nights contest between the Flyers and the Wolves. As a way to honor those who referee games, the Freeman School District took a moment both last night and last week, before the Jan. 16 girls' ...

With the sun on the rise, Paul Wynia moves snow on the sidewalk that runs along the northern edge of the Freeman Public Schools campus Monday morning, Jan. 22. Blowing snow made for another tricky weekend in terms of travel, but it appears as though mild weather has finally arrived — at least for th...

Menno junior Ellyana Ulmer tries to find her way through Freeman's defense in a Cornbelt Conference doubleheader hosted by the Wolves Friday night, Jan. 19. The Freeman girls came away with a 65-25 win to improve to 7-2 while the Freeman boys topped the Wolves 77-33 to up their record to 5-3. While ...

This was the scene inside the chapel at Freeman Academy Wednesday morning as the school's Chamber Choir prepared to present a 30-minute performance to the student body. This comes in advance of the ensemble's appearance Friday night at the South Dakota American Choral Directors Association's winter ...

This was the scene outside the east entrance of the school in Marion Tuesday morning, Jan. 16 as voters weighed in on a $6.5 million bond election to help fund the first two phases of a three-phase Master Plan to renovate the outdated campus. Poll workers said that traffic had been steady since voti...

As expected, the bitter cold of the last few days has extended into a new week, with the clock in front of CorTrust Bank reading 13-below the morning of Monday, Jan. 15 — Martin Luther King Jr. day. While highs will stay below zero today, temperatures will get into the black again on Tuesday and dou...