Region 4B boys basketball action is set for next week and No. 2 Freeman Public will host No. 7 Menno at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 27 at Freeman Public. That game will be followed by No. 6 Freeman Academy/Marion facing No. 3 Centerville. The region tournament begins Monday with No. 8 Irene-Wakonda faci...

Marion-Freeman head wrestling coach Chris Sayler and Marion senior Sarah Cremer stand at attention for the singing of the national anthem just before 10 a.m. Thursday morning — the first day of the all-class South Dakota High School Activities Association State Wrestling Championships. Wrestling at ...

Less than a week after upsetting No. 1-ranked Ethan and then trouncing an above-.500 Gayville-Volin team, the No. 2-seeded Freeman High School girls took care of business against No. 7 Menno on Tuesday night, downing the Wolves 63-47 in the second round of the Region 4B Girls Basketball Tournament. ...

Freeman Academy sophomore Estelle Waltner looks up court in girls basketball action last week in Menno. The Bearcats and Wolves both closed out their regular seasons on Thursday, Feb. 15 — Menno beat FA/Marion 51-41 — and are taking part in Region 4B action this week. And on Monday, Waltner's 16 poi...

Postseason basketball action begins tonight, Monday, Feb. 19, when the Freeman Academy/Marion girls travel to Scotland to face the Highlanders in the first game of the Region 4B Tournament. The winner of No. 8 Scotland (3-15) and No. 9 FA/Marion (3-17) will travel to Centerville on Tuesday to face t...

Chris Sayler keeps his eyes on the action during the Region 2B Wrestling Tournament in Canton on Saturday. The Marion-Freeman coach, who has been working with the Rebels program since returning to his home community in 2008, was named Region 2B wrestling coach of the year on Saturday — less than a w...

In what athletic director Jacque Liebl called “the end of an era,” Menno hosted Freeman Academy/Marion in a doubleheader Thursday night, Feb. 15 — the final home basketball games that Menno will play as the Wolves. Menno will be joining Scotland starting next season in an expanded Trappers cooperati...

The Freeman Area Veteran's Memorial is pictured Thursday morning following a dusting of snow that fell last night and in the overnight hours. Another round of winter weather is expected later tonight and may produce more accumulation that the community saw earlier.

On behalf of the Freeman Lions Club, Sam Sorensen presents a check to Max Alderson in the amount of $350 to be used for signs alerting the public to the presence of a Neighborhood Watch program in Freeman. Alderson, a community resident, was a key player in the establishment of the group last August...

This is the Monday's historic look back — a weekly feature by Heritage Hall Museum & Archives that is posted on its Facebook page. It includes the following information: This is the photo of the Freeman Clinic as it appeared at the top of the May 16, 1963 issue of the Freeman Courier. It marked the ...