This photo and description were posted on Facebook on Monday by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives as its weekly look back: The two-story building in this photo is familiar as the home of Merchants State Bank from 1913 to 1974. But it and the single-story brick structure adjacent to the north were also...

The historic Johannesthal Reformed Church and the historic Bethel Church (left) are pictured on a beautiful late Sunday morning in early June. The structures are part of the Heritage Hall Museum & Archives campus located in the southwest corner of Freeman. Other outbuildings include the Diamond Vall...

This photo was posted by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives on its Facebook page Monday, June 3 as part of its weekly look back. It shows Merchants State Bank as it looked in the later decades of the 20th century, before a major renovation/addition changed its appearance to what it is today. Here's is ...

Rummage sale-goers are making their way through the streets of Freeman today for the first of a two-day citywide sale. Listings of participating locations are available at both grocery stores in Freeman and at the Courier office.

This map of the city of Freeman shows where many of the rummages sales will be held on Friday and Saturday, June 7 and 8. This listing features those who have chosen to promote their sales through The Courier. Here are more details, with the numbers corresponding with the map. To save the map as an ...

Scotland/Menno uses all of its strengths to take down two higher seeds in what was an exhilarating Thursday-Friday-Saturday in Aberdeen for Trapper Nation  In addition to multiple piercings in both ears and a small silver bar just off her right eyebrow, Olivia Binde has tattoos. A lot of them. Seven...

This is the site in the city of Freeman for today’s primary election that will decide a number of races, including one for Hutchinson County Commission and other for District 19 House. Voters in the Marion School District are also deciding a general obligation bond resolution that would help fund an...

Seven-year-old Christopher Hofer (on the bike) and 10-year-old Emmett Poe play in a large water puddle near the Freeman Public School complex on Saturday. Frequent rains have made for a wet spring across the area and, while providing a opportunity for boys to be boys, is also impacting spring planti...

The Freeman High School boys golf team of Alaric Knittel, Tannen Auch, Oliver Waltner and Thor Aanensen stand for a photo before leaving for Brookings and the 2024 State Golf Tournament Sunday morning. The team qualified at the Region 3B Tournament last month, where the Flyers finished second by a s...

This is a great look back at one of Freeman's most iconic lost buildings — the depot. It was constructed after the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company extended its line through southeastern Dakota Territory in the late 1870s and established a series of stops every eight miles. That incl...