The golf team from Freeman Public, which won the school's second-ever boys region championship last month, stands for a photo prior to leaving for Watertown and the state golf meet to be played over two days Monday and Tuesday. The Flyers are heading north a day early for a practice round at Prairie Winds Golf Club, where the Class B championship rounds will be held. The girls are in Watertown, too, and are playing at Cattail Crossing.

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This photo offers a good look at Freeman Prairie Arboretum and the adjacent Heritage Hall Museum & Archives campus as it was on a beautiful late-spring Saturday morning. Plans for the arboretum, a 40-acre vista of plants, grasses, ponds, walking paths and other features were announced 25 years ago, which construction beginning shortly thereafter.

This was a post on the Freeman Development - Experience Freeman SD Facebook page on Thursday acknowledging the opening of a new season at the Freeman Swimming Pool. By all accounts it was a busy day at the summer hotspot as hot weather had the place packed. The Freeman pool is open daily from 1 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Freeman Police are searching for a man they say stole a bicycle that was parked on the west side of Freeman Junior-Senior High School Thursday morning, June 1. Officer Jay Slevin said the man was seen bicycling down Walnut Street at 7:06 a.m. before pulling into the school's back parking lot. School camera footage shows that he then ditched his own bike and at 7:36 a.m. took a bicycle that belonged to school custodian Larry Wipf, who was mowing the lawn, before heading back north on Walnut Street. Slevin said at some point the suspect's own bicycle was then retrieved.

“I’m holding history.” That was Oliver’s comment to me as he clutched his Canon R10 camera and we stepped foot onto the Howard Wood Field track complex in Sioux Falls Thursday morning for the first day of the 2023 SDHSAA State Track & Field Championships. I took a second to let his words — “I’m holding history” — sink in before replying, “Yes you are, Ollie. Yes you are.”

The Freeman Academy/Marion 4x200 relay team of Karter Weber, Keaton Preheim, Maddox Kihne and Liam Ortman hangs out on the infield waiting to see their position following the preliminary race at the state track meet on Friday. The boys qualified for the final with the seventh-best time in the field and went on to finish seventh in Saturday's final.

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A small group of volunteers, including Luke Allison, Dennis Lehmann and Abraham Cadillo, were working together Wednesday morning to plant 36 roses at the Prairie Rose Amphitheater that is part of the Freeman Prairie Arboretum. It's all part of ongoing maintenance, upkeep and improvements at the 40-acre spot that, this year, is marking 25 years since plans for the arboretum were first announced. Allison is a 2018 Freeman Academy graduate, and both he and Cadillo are recent graduates of Hesston College in Hesston, Kan., who are spending a bit of time in Freeman this summer.

Band members at Menno High School stand as they play the national anthem at the community Memorial Day service at the Menno Cemetery Monday morning, May 29. The 40-minute observance included music, a keynote address from a veteran of the Army National Guard and the reading of the Honor Roll acknowledging the 367 military men and women who have died from the larger Menno community.