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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

It’s just after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, March 24, and I’m just now getting to my publisher’s column — something that is ...

The Freeman boys captured the Class B championship in thrilling fashion and the Flyer cheerleaders stomped their way to the ...

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