... and other stories about Menno senior Ashton Massey, who bounced back from emotional adversity to become one of South Dakota’s top track and field athletes and among the best Menno has ever seen — even success aside. Prologue: Then and Now It was Oct. 23, 2021 and Ashton Massey was competing in t...

Sunday’s worship service led by Freeman Ministerial Association touches on loss, hope, excitement for what the future holds A member of the Freeman High School Class of 2024 lost too soon in a car accident late last year was remembered through passages of scripture she had noted in her Bible, Pasto...

FHS, Menno graduations Saturday, May 11; FA, Marion Saturday, May 18 Graduation will be on the minds of local students, their families and their respective communities this weekend and next as seniors reach a memorable milestone in their lives. Both Freeman Public and Menno will hold commencement ex...

Last week Mory Ortman & Jordan Ortman returned to their alma mater to present a piano concert as a fundraiser for Freeman Academy’s Cultivate 120 campaign, and in the process raised the roof with top-shelf music inside an old gymnasium. It may have sounded like something you would hear in Carnegie H...

Courier recognized at  2023 SDNA convention Weekly wins a dozen awards for writing, photography, design The Courier won first place among all weeklies across the state in the category of Best Publication Website — freemansd.com — in the South Dakota NewsMedia Association’s (SDNA) 2023 SDNA Better Ne...

S&S Ag Supply LLC has been growing and diversifying steadily the past 20 years to the point where a new headquarters of operation was necessary. The result? A brand-new 21,000 square-foot facility in Freeman that helps accent Highway 81. When Paula (Schmeichel) VerDouw left to study accounting at Au...

Opportunity through Travel South Dakota takes representatives from the South Dakota Chislic Festival to media blitz in Manhatten The Big Apple recently took a bite out of one of South Dakota’s most recognizable foods — chislic — as Travel South Dakota attended a media blitz on a rooftop venue in the...

By Dana Hess - For the S.D. NewMedia Association At its meeting Wednesday, April 17, the board of directors of the South Dakota High School Activities Association hired Kristina Sage as an assistant executive director. Sage is currently the athletic director at Freeman High School. Sage will replace...

Legendary bar in Menno will remain as such after Freeman businessman and owner of Hootz buys it on auction Saturday When Dave and Liz Huber purchased the Beer Garden in Menno in the fall of 2021, they saved a longstanding and popular establishment from oblivion. Jay Hofer may have just done the same...

Four. That’s how many times election workers counted the ballots in the race for Freeman mayor late Tuesday night, April 9 — ballots that resulted in a razor-close battle between incumbent Michael Walter and challenger Cody Fransen. Walter won 190 to 188, but that was not confirmed until close to 9:...