This photo shows the opening page to the chapter on artificial intelligence that is included in the 2024-2026 Associated Press Stylebook, which is used as a guide for newspapers around the world. The Courier editorialized about this still-relatively new development in technology that uses bots to re...

Avery Mellman and other players for Freeman's amateur baseball team stand at attention during the playing of the national anthem during the community's Independence Day celebration on July 6. Mellman and the Blacksox will join six other teams from the South Central League in Region 6B play this week...

Ryan Wieman of Wieman Land & Auction of Marion identified bidders during the South Dakota Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale in Freeman Saturday, July 19. The live auction was among the highlights of the sale, which generated roughly $83,000 for MCC's mission of worldwide relief, according to p...

Edie Tschetter and Nathan Epp talk logistics ahead of the live auction that will help highlight the 2025 South Dakota Mennonite Central Committee Relief Sale being held in Freeman today, Saturday, July 19. The sale officially got underway at 11 a.m. with food booths open and the silent auction ready...

Luke Kelly creates art by pressing a decorative rubber block onto a pad of ink before transferring it to paper Thursday afternoon, July 17. It was part of the Freeman Public Library’s Summer Reading Program’s visit to Heritage Hall Museum & Archives, where it continued with its “Color Our World” the...

The three center flags at the Freeman Area Veteran's Memorial are pictured against a partly cloudy sky in Freeman on Thursday — another day that is seeing a break from the high heat of the past week.

This Silver Maple and a chunk of the front deck at Erin and Leah Lachman's home fell victim to a strong storm that moved across the region Tuesday evening, July 15. The large system that extended from the Nebraska to the North Dakota border reached Freeman mid-evening and, by 10 p.m., had cleared th...

This photo, taken during the fireworks display at the conclusion of Freeman's Independence Day celebration held July 6, is featured on the cover of this week's Courier. It was one of more than 600 similar images made by photographer Jeremy Waltner, who in addition to Freeman's celebration, covered t...

A lawn ornament absorbs the hot sun and intense heat of the day as temperatures are again climbing into the 90s. Hot weather will continue through Tuesday before a mid-week cooldown.

The moon that rose in the eastern sky late Saturday night, July 12 was a beautiful one, with orange accents standing out against other elements — in the case the lights at the Freeman Junior-Senior High School parking lot.