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CURRY TO GRADS: FEAST DAILY OF FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE
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CURRY TO GRADS: FEAST DAILY OF FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE
By Jeremy Waltner 
May 8, 2024
Sunday’s worship service led by Freeman Ministerial Association touches on loss, hope, excitement for what the future holds A member of the Freeman High School Class of 2024 lost too soon in a car accident late last year was remembered through passages of scripture she had noted in her Bible, Pasto...
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PIANO MEN; ORTMEN DUO COMES TO FREEMAN
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PIANO MEN; ORTMEN DUO COMES TO FREEMAN
By Jeremy Waltner 
May 1, 2024
Last week Mory Ortman & Jordan Ortman returned to their alma mater to present a piano concert as a fundraiser for Freeman Academy’s Cultivate 120 campaign, and in the process raised the roof with top-shelf music inside an old gymnasium. It may have sounded like something you would hear in Carnegie H...
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COURIER RECOGNIZED IN SDNA NEWSMEDIA CONTEST
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COURIER RECOGNIZED IN SDNA NEWSMEDIA CONTEST
By Jeremy Waltner 
May 1, 2024
Courier recognized at  2023 SDNA convention Weekly wins a dozen awards for writing, photography, design The Courier won first place among all weeklies across the state in the category of Best Publication Website — freemansd.com — in the South Dakota NewsMedia Association’s (SDNA) 2023 SDNA Better Ne...
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NEW YORK CITY GETS TASTE OF CHISLIC
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NEW YORK CITY GETS TASTE OF CHISLIC
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 24, 2024
Opportunity through Travel South Dakota takes representatives from the South Dakota Chislic Festival to media blitz in Manhatten The Big Apple recently took a bite out of one of South Dakota’s most recognizable foods — chislic — as Travel South Dakota attended a media blitz on a rooftop venue in the...
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MAYOR WALTER: ‘IT’S ONWARD AND UPWARD’
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MAYOR WALTER: ‘IT’S ONWARD AND UPWARD’
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 17, 2024
Four. That’s how many times election workers counted the ballots in the race for Freeman mayor late Tuesday night, April 9 — ballots that resulted in a razor-close battle between incumbent Michael Walter and challenger Cody Fransen. Walter won 190 to 188, but that was not confirmed until close to 9:...
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SAGE HIRED AS SDHSAA ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: ‘I’M THRILLED’
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SAGE HIRED AS SDHSAA ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: ‘I’M THRILLED’
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 8, 2024
A woman who once bled Cornbelt Conference maroon and was named an assistant executive director with the South Dakota High School Activities Association 16 years ago — Jo Auch of Menno — is being replaced by another — Kristina Sage of Freeman. Sage, who has been the athletic director at Freeman Publi...
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POLICE PURSIT ENDS IN FREEMAN TUESDAY NIGHT
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POLICE PURSIT ENDS IN FREEMAN TUESDAY NIGHT
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 10, 2024
The Freeman Police Department was one of several law enforcement agencies in pursuit of an individual who had driven from Lennox into Freeman in a white Chevrolet Impala with tinted windows late Tuesday night, April 9. Freeman Police Chief Jay Slevin told The Courier Wednesday morning that the indiv...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ELECTION DAY
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: ELECTION DAY
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 9, 2024
It's Election Day and this was the scene inside Freeman City Hall Tuesday morning as the joint city/school election was underway. Four races will be decided in Freeman: Mayor Michael Walter is being challenged by Cody Fransen; Ward 1 councilor Charles Gering is being challenged by Erin Lachman; And ...
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FNJP PROGRAM ON MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY; LIVESTREAM LINK HERE
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FNJP PROGRAM ON MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY; LIVESTREAM LINK HERE
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 6, 2024
The Freeman Network for Justice and Peace (FNJP) is hosting the first of what will be a series of programs offering a closer look at the ongoing Hamas-Israeli conflict Sunday afternoon, April 7 at the Freeman Community Center auditorium located at 224 S. Wipf Street in Freeman. The program will run ...
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PUBLISHER’S COLUMN: THE CLARK FACTOR
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PUBLISHER’S COLUMN: THE CLARK FACTOR
By Jeremy Waltner 
April 5, 2024
Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes face Connecticut in the second of two NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Elite Eight games tonight. Ahead of tonight's scheduled 8 p.m. tip, here is what Courier Publisher Jeremy Waltner had to say in his weekly column about the superstar who wears No. 22. I have ...
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AREA WIDE CONNECTION TO CEASE OPERATION JULY 1
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AREA WIDE CONNECTION TO CEASE OPERATION JULY 1
By Jeremy Waltner 
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SAARIE AND HIS STOLEN POLARIS RANGER; THE REPORT
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SAARIE AND HIS STOLEN POLARIS RANGER; THE REPORT
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This story will appear in print in the July 9 issue of The Courier. Three individuals have been arrested and are facing state felony ch...
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Freeman 39-year-old recognized nationally for her work as an adoption specialist with the Children’s Home Society of South Dakota — but this is not ab...
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ALL IN THE FAMILY
By Jeremy Waltner 
July 1, 2025
Forty-two years ago, his Grandpa Ted took over Ferd’s Market and renamed it Ted’s Market. Ten years after that, his dad, Bob, took over Ted’s Market a...
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: STANDING WATER
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By Jeremy Waltner 
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Emma Schoenwald and friend Evelyn Lafrentz found enjoyment in a ditch full of water not far north of their Dewald Street homes in Freeman Monday eveni...
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