The bell tower at the Salem-Zion Mennonite Church is pictured on a cool but sunny Easter morning April 5, 2026.

Seven-year-old Kenzie Bauer works alongside her grandma, Jonetta Hofer, in package Schmeckfest sausage Saturday morning, ...

Will Ortman, director of this year's Schmeckfest musical, "Bright Star," visits with Nadia Mudder, who plays the leading roll ...

Regarless of where life takes them, they’re always welcome here at home,” said Mitchell Kleinsasser, pictured here at last ...

Freeman head basketball coach Lance Friesen addresses his team near the conclusion of Sunday afternoon's welcome home for the ...

The path to this year’s Schmeckfest musical wasn’t carefully planned. In fact, it started almost by accident. A trip to ...

Sheila Wipf and Mataya Yilmaz, band directors at Freeman Public and Freeman Academy, accepted 25-year awards on behalf of ...

The Monday morning sun lights up this American flag flying on a Third Street home in Freeman. After an unseasonably warm day on Sunday, the start of the work week is expected to once again be a ...

Connor Campbell, a trooper with the South Dakota Highway Patrol, shows Freeman students the inside of his Dodge Charger ...

The administration building at Freeman Academy — formally identified at Memorial Hall — is pictured after nightfall Wednesday, March 25.

On Monday afternoon, March 16 — less than 48 hours after the Freeman High School boys basketball team left for Aberdeen to compete in the State B ...