This was the scene near the corner of Main and Third streets Tuesday morning as the first work day of the new year began. Libby Miller, who has owned Flawless Nail and Salon since early 2014, is remodeling her downtown Freeman business, which includes new siding on the south side of her store. That ...

Mother Nature gifted the area a spectacular start to the new year with a frosty (and cold) Jan. 1, 2024. Fog from the overnight hours served as a paintbrush that decorated trees like these near the Freeman Prairie Arboretum in white.

On this New Year's Eve day 2023, here's a fabulous look back at a Main Street winter scene from 125 years ago. This is what Main Street looked like looking south in 1918, with Freeman Depot pictured in the lower right and South Dakota Mennonite College pictured in the far distance. Also notable is t...

City workers from Freeman spent Friday morning clearing the rest of the snow of Main Street from the winter weather earlier in the week. Now, it appears as though the snow-removal equipment can be put away for awhile as the short-term forecast is dry.

This photo, taken at the 2023 Menno Pioneer Power Show, is included in this week's Courier as part of a pictorial retrospective of the past 23 months. The Publisher's Column touches on the photos and gives some perspective on time. Here it is: The paradox of time Does it seem like long ago, or was i...

A dusting of snow leftover from Wednesday helps decorate the city's decorations on the light poles lining Main Street Thursday morning. While the weather appears to have cleared out, the visual impact from this week's winter weather is fitting for a holiday season that is nearing its end.

That's Trey Maske putting a little muscle into his shoveling effort outside his family's Freeman home on Tuesday, as cleanup work from the Christmas Day winter storm continued.

There was some clean-up work to do across the area Tuesday morning following the first winter weather event of the season. While the area didn't receive the amounts some feared, several inches of snow fell during Christmas Day. Conditions were windy, too, and ice that came after dark made for slick ...

The warmth of a Christmas Eve service at the Freeman Missionary Church is shown through stained glass windows Sunday night — hours before snow began falling on what is going to be a memorable holiday.

The youth group from the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church prepare Christmas sacks during the Sunday school hour on Christmas Eve morning. The sacks will be handed out this evening following the program at the church — one of numerous services of the like that take place in churches around the world on th...