Ducks swim in a pond in a field east of Freeman Friday morning. It's another wet day across the region with rain and thunderstorms in the forecast today and again on Saturday. PHOTO BY STACEY WALTNER

This photo (courtesy of Joann Munkvold) is from the April 11 Menno Relays and shows Lexie McNinch in action. Menno is hosting its second of two home track meets Thursday afternoon when the Erv Ptak Relays return to town. Field events begin at 1 p.m. Freeman Academy/Marion is among the teams competin...

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...

The Freeman Academy campus, located on the southern end of Main Street, is home to the community's most historic building — Music Hall. The building opened in 1903 as South Dakota Mennonite College and has served multiple purposes as the school grew and evolved over the years and decades. This photo...

This photo shows what Lions Park in Freeman looked like in the middle of the previous century and was taken looking to the south-southwest. Heritage Hall Museum & Archives posted this photo with the following information taken from the 1979 centennial book, "Freeman Facts, Freeman Fiction." "In 1930...

This shows the east side of the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Freeman — a front side that isn't always noticed because of trees lining Relanto Street that runs on the east side of the building.

The temperatures the past few days may not have felt like it, but spring is here. It's not hard to see the signs ...

Freeman freshman Makenzie Scharberg eyes the finish line in the 100 as the Flyer Invitational's running events get underway at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 19. Scharberg finished seventh in the race — Freeman senior Zenovia Butler was sixth — and was one of a host of place winners from Freeman, Marion and...

Judy Schrag, who worked in the cafeteria at Freeman Public Schools for many years, helps get the concessions stand ready to go in the hours leading up to the Flyer Invitational Thursday morning, April 18. Located underneath the grandstand at the school's track and field complex, the concessions stan...

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...