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By Jeremy Waltner

March 24, 2025

This undated photo, taken decades ago, shows the south end of Freeman's Main Street and the Freeman Academy/Freeman Junior College campus sometime aft...

FREEMAN BOYS SETTLE FOR SIXTH IN THE ‘B’

By Jeremy Waltner

March 22, 2025

They arrived in Aberdeen sixth and on Sunday they will return to Freeman sixth. Facing a hot-handed Wall team and its relentless man-to-man press that...

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A CLOSER LOOK AT SCHMECKFEST’S ‘JANE EYRE’

By Jeremy Waltner

March 19, 2025

EDITOR’S NOTE: Since January, the cast and production team involved with the 2025 Schmeckfest stage production, “Jane Eyre,” have been working diligen...

news, sports

WALTER TO PLAY AS FLYERS AIM FOR CONSOLATION TITLE

By Jeremy Waltner

March 20, 2025

The Freeman High School boys are playing for a championship — a consolation championship, that is. And one day after sitting out because of illness, f...

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FREEMAN BOARD LUKEWARM ON PHOENIX EXPANSION

By Jeremy Waltner

March 19, 2025

Request comes from Marion, which is also in talks about an all-sports co-op with Parker; superintendents and ADs were to meet Wednesday An expansion o...

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COFFEE, ANYONE?

By Jeremy Waltner

February 19, 2025

Freeman businesswoman Dawn Walz is finding out the answer to that question is ‘yes’ as she turns her historic Main Street building into a gathering p...

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MIKE PETERSON: A SELF-BUILT, AMERICAN-MADE PARADOX

By Jeremy Waltner

February 12, 2025

You don’t know Mike Peterson. You think you do. Those who have encountered the community resident of 36 years, or have heard about him, know him as a ...

sports

VIBORG-HURLEY TOO TOUGH FOR FLYERS IN ‘B’ OPENER

By Jeremy Waltner

March 22, 2025

The Viborg-Hurley boys were ranked No. 1 in the South Dakota Prep Media Poll for most of the season, and on Thursday night against Freeman, they showe...

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FLYERS B-BOUND; THE FULL REPORT

By Jeremy Waltner

March 12, 2025

Fifty years after they won the whole thing and a quarter century since the last time they qualified, the Freeman High School boys are going back to th...

sports

STATE WRESTLING: REBELS BATTLE; TSCHETTER 8TH

By Jeremy Waltner

March 5, 2025

It may not have been the state tournament Marion/Freeman was hoping for, but the Rebels did return from Rapid City with some hardware — an eighth-plac...

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REGION 4B: STRONG SEASON ENDS EARLY FOR FLYERS

By Jeremy Waltner

March 5, 2025

Losses to Avon, Gavyille-Volin put blemish on otherwise solid season, but head coach Jenny Peters says the Flyers rose to this year’s challenge If the...

obituaries

Wayne Pfeiffer, 74

March 24, 2025

Wayne Edwin Pfeiffer, 74, of Freeman, S.D., passed away peacefully on March 16, 2025 after a 14 year battle with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and prostate c...

obituaries

Clinton Bauer, 89

By Jeremy Waltner

March 21, 2025

Clinton Bauer, 89 of Freeman, S.D., passed away on March 17, 2025 at the Freeman Regional Nursing Home. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. S...

obituaries

Death Notice: Clinton Bauer

By Jeremy Waltner

March 18, 2025

Clinton Bauer, 89 of Freeman, passed away on March 17, 2025 at the Freeman Regional Nursing Home. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m., Saturd...

obituaries

Rita Erickson, 81

March 6, 2025

Rita Erickson, 81, of Sioux Falls, S.D., passed away unexpectedly at her home in Mesa, Ariz. from natural causes. A funeral service will be held on Mo...

BENEFIT FOR ROTH FAMILY THIS SATURDAY

By Jeremy Waltner

March 5, 2025

Proceeds to help with expenses following Loren Roth’s June 19 brain injury Nearly nine months after an injury on the farm left Loren Roth with a traum...

FLYERS SODAK 16 BOUND; TO FACE HOWARD AT THE CORN PALACE

By Jeremy Waltner

March 7, 2025

The Freeman High School boys basketball team has developed a ritual this season of singing the school song, “Joyous and Ever Loyal,” in the locker roo...

news, sports

WALTER TO PLAY AS FLYERS AIM FOR CONSOLATION TITLE

By Jeremy Waltner

March 20, 2025

The Freeman High School boys are playing for a championship — a consolation championship, that is. And one day after sitting out because of illness, f...

photo day

PHOTO OF THE DAY: AS SEEN IN 1978

By Jeremy Waltner

March 14, 2025

This photo shows a renovation of the old K&K store on Freeman's Main Street prior to a series of businesses that would come and go inside those walls ...

FLYERS RETURNING TO STATE ‘B’ TOURNAMENT

By Jeremy Waltner

March 11, 2025

Fifty years after they won the whole thing and a quarter century since the last time they qualified, the Freeman boys are going back to the State ‘B’ ...

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