The history of the Freeman community is told in the 120-plus volumes of newspapers that make up the archives of the Courier, but also in the numerous binders filled with negatives from when film was synonymous with photography. This collection spans the 1980s, 1990s and dips its toes into the 21st c...

Kenny Birkey will be joining the Freeman Police Department as a second officer. The 2010 Freeman High School graduate — and permanent resident of Freeman since moving back here in 2019 after marrying Aprille Hofer — was hired by the Freeman City Council at its regular meeting Tuesday night, Oct. 15....

I don’t know about anybody else who played soccer for Freeman Academy in the 1980s or 1990s, but when I hear the name “Dordt College” — or Dordt University, as it is known today — I immediately think of soccer. And that makes me immediately think of James Valley Christian. I don’t have a lot of “war...

Initiative between school and secretary of Office of Tribal Relations will include multi-cultural experiences; other schools invited to event JEREMY WALTNER  - EDITOR & PUBLISHER The public is invited to join students from Freeman Academy and surrounding schools to an Indigenous People’s Celebration...

Fifth Street in Menno will once again be alive with a stream of music and choreographed formations next Friday, Oct. 4 when another Menno Band Day takes the community by storm. The exhibition and competition will begin at 10 a.m. when the Wolves Marching Band leads a processional that will include 2...

Sure, the ability to harness and use the energy created by steam is central to the Pioneer Power Show, but Menno’s biggest two-day event of the year also demonstrates something else — an ability to go big.  In the mid-1800s, when the world figured out how to create and harness steam and convert it i...

Campus improvements costing estimated $4.2M would use existing tax levy School officials in Marion are looking more closely at a Plan B that would use the existing tax levy to update some of the areas on the district’s outdated campus, the oldest part of which is 110 years old. Superintendent Brian ...

Land on Fifth Street has been donated; funds are being raised A centennial celebration in Menno in 1979 was a direct link to the establishment of the Menno Heritage Museum a few short years later. Today, a new effort to further preserve the memories that matter to the larger Menno community is well ...

What began as a relatively unassuming exhibition on the Menno City Park nearly 40 years ago will return once again, not to the park, but to Pioneer Acres on the north edge of town, where the Pioneer Power Show continues to grow and flourish with every passing year. Exhibits and demonstrations will t...

150-YEAR CELEBRATION OF SETTLEMENT Place and time, then and now, honored by Swiss Mennonites Salem, Salem-Zion Mennonite churches come together to honor Anabaptist roots, migration journey of 1874 in weekend observance JEREMY WALTNER  - EDITOR & PUBLISHER There was assuredly great risk and no doubt ...