Last week Mory Ortman & Jordan Ortman returned to their alma mater to present a piano concert as a fundraiser for Freeman Academy’s Cultivate 120 campaign, and in the process raised the roof with top-shelf music inside an old gymnasium. It may have sounded like something you would hear in Carnegie H...

Courier recognized at  2023 SDNA convention Weekly wins a dozen awards for writing, photography, design The Courier won first place among all weeklies across the state in the category of Best Publication Website — freemansd.com — in the South Dakota NewsMedia Association’s (SDNA) 2023 SDNA Better Ne...

Opportunity through Travel South Dakota takes representatives from the South Dakota Chislic Festival to media blitz in Manhatten The Big Apple recently took a bite out of one of South Dakota’s most recognizable foods — chislic — as Travel South Dakota attended a media blitz on a rooftop venue in the...

Four. That’s how many times election workers counted the ballots in the race for Freeman mayor late Tuesday night, April 9 — ballots that resulted in a razor-close battle between incumbent Michael Walter and challenger Cody Fransen. Walter won 190 to 188, but that was not confirmed until close to 9:...

A woman who once bled Cornbelt Conference maroon and was named an assistant executive director with the South Dakota High School Activities Association 16 years ago — Jo Auch of Menno — is being replaced by another — Kristina Sage of Freeman. Sage, who has been the athletic director at Freeman Publi...

The Freeman Police Department was one of several law enforcement agencies in pursuit of an individual who had driven from Lennox into Freeman in a white Chevrolet Impala with tinted windows late Tuesday night, April 9. Freeman Police Chief Jay Slevin told The Courier Wednesday morning that the indiv...

It's Election Day and this was the scene inside Freeman City Hall Tuesday morning as the joint city/school election was underway. Four races will be decided in Freeman: Mayor Michael Walter is being challenged by Cody Fransen; Ward 1 councilor Charles Gering is being challenged by Erin Lachman; And ...

The Freeman Network for Justice and Peace (FNJP) is hosting the first of what will be a series of programs offering a closer look at the ongoing Hamas-Israeli conflict Sunday afternoon, April 7 at the Freeman Community Center auditorium located at 224 S. Wipf Street in Freeman. The program will run ...

Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes face Connecticut in the second of two NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Elite Eight games tonight. Ahead of tonight's scheduled 8 p.m. tip, here is what Courier Publisher Jeremy Waltner had to say in his weekly column about the superstar who wears No. 22. I have ...

Former SDSU football coach keynoting April 7 event; there’s still time to RSVP Those attending Sunday evening’s spring banquet of the Menno Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) will hear from one of the most well-known former coaches in all of South Dakota. John Stiegelmeier, who led the South Dak...