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obituaries

By Jeremy Waltner

September 16, 2024

Elizabeth “Betty” Bender, age 99 of Yankton, S.D., passed away early Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 at Oakview Terrace Nursing Home, Freeman, S.D. A funeral...

photo day

PHOTO OF THE DAY: FORMING FREEMAN

By Jeremy Waltner

September 15, 2024

This photo was taken in 1968 and shows what was at the time the southeastern corner of Freeman, looking to the southwest. The image is part of a histo...

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...

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’ ...

sports

TSCHETTER SETTLES FOR 8TH AFTER 7-2 LOSS

By Jeremy Waltner

February 27, 2025

A wrestler Easton Tschetter hadn’t seen before — Britton-Hecla junior Bryce Hawkinson — muscled his way to a 7-2 decision over the Freeman freshman in...

photo day

PHOTO OF THE DAY: READY FOR ACTION

By Jeremy Waltner

March 11, 2025

For players on Freeman's boys basketball team, the biggest game of their lives will unfold tonight as the Flyers face Howard at the Corn Palace in the...

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