The west side of the 300 block of Main Street in Freeman was busy on Tuesday morning, with many visiting the downtown grocery store, Jamboree Foods. It was 30 years ago this week that owner Bob Pidde was making plans to temporarily close his previous store and move into the new location, which had s...

The Freeman Area Veterans Memorial is pictured in the foreground as fireworks light up the June 30 night sky over Freeman. It was the grand finale of what was a fun day as hundreds converged on the ball field grounds for the community's Independence Day Celebration. The Marion/Freeman Rebels youth b...

The sun was shining on a gorgeous Sunday morning in Freeman and the scene was set on the grounds of Merchants State Bank Field as the community anticipates another Independence Day celebration. Action gets underway at 12 p.m. with summer recreation and youth VFW baseball games at both the softball a...

This photo was posted on Heritage Hall Museum & Archives' Facebook page this past Monday as part of its weekly look back. Here's the description: For more than four decades, bowling was a popular sport in Freeman and Palace Bowl was the place to be. Orville Ellwein opened Palace Bowl Bowling Lanes i...

Katelyn Anderson leans in a for a closer look as Terry Waterman reveals the inside of a geode — a rock featuring a cavity lined with crystals made up of other mineral matter. It was part of an excursion to Heritage Hall Museum & Archives taken on by elementary-aged students involved in the Freeman P...

This photo was taken during the 2024 Schmeckfest and shows volunteers making sausage inside Freeman Academy's maintenance building. The sale of frozen Schmeckfest Sausage returns today through a special summer sale. The popular German food will be available for purchase from 4 to 8 p.m. on the east ...

Flooded basements, lost crops, helpful hands and questions about solutions all come on the heels of weather event no one will forget A dead fish. That’s what Brad Anderson found by the side of his driveway on South Main Street — washed up when waters pushed the Freeman Prairie Arboretum out of its b...

This reprint of a photo taken at the Turner County Fair in 1930 showing the East Freeman Band was published on the front page of the Freeman Courier 50 years ago this week. It was part of an announcement that the band would be convening once again for what would be one of the final concerts in its s...

Moana, an adventurous girl played by Abigail Bradley, and Maui, an eccentric islander played by Jax Kaufman, take to the Pacific in an effort to retrieve the heart of the goddess Te Fiti that, over 1,000 years before, had been lost to the sea. It was part of the Freeman Area Children's Choir's produ...

With Merchants State Bank Field pictured in the background, water stands in the parking area off the first base line Sunday afternoon. While much of the field itself has dried, it's still soft with standing water remaining in low areas, including behind home plate and both the first base and third b...