Head of department for less than a year calls departure ‘unfortunate’ Yet another chief of police with the city of Freeman — this time Jonathan “Jay” Slevin — has resigned after less than a year as head of the department. The Freeman City Council accepted Slevin’s resignation, effective June 3, at i...

Science teacher shares encouragement and five end their days at Freeman Academy  Standing behind the lectern on the Pioneer Hall stage, Carol Stastny, science and computer teacher at Freeman Academy used the opportunity as the keynote speaker at the 2024 commencement to give the graduating seniors a...

Twenty graduating seniors say goodbye at emotional ceremony It was both the end of an era and the start of something new inside the Freeman High School gym as 20 graduating seniors said goodbye to high school Saturday afternoon, May 11. And in their commencement address, co-valedictorians Ava Anders...

... and other stories about Menno senior Ashton Massey, who bounced back from emotional adversity to become one of South Dakota’s top track and field athletes and among the best Menno has ever seen — even success aside. Prologue: Then and Now It was Oct. 23, 2021 and Ashton Massey was competing in t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...