A press release from the South Dakota Chislic Festival (SDCF) notes the seventh annual festival will take place in Freeman Saturday, July 26, but also another major change — that following the 2025 ...

A lawn ornament absorbs the hot sun and intense heat of the day as temperatures are again climbing into the 90s. Hot weather ...

The moon that rose in the eastern sky late Saturday night, July 12 was a beautiful one, with orange accents standing out ...

The Area Wide Connection, a free-distribution advertising publication of Second Century Publishing, Inc. that serves residents of Hutchinson, Turner a ...

With his wife, Lillie, to his left, Andre Eisenbeis leads a group of 20 newspaper men and women from around the county — and one from the UK — on a tour of their Prairie Roots Produce operation ...

Emma Schoenwald and friend Evelyn Lafrentz found enjoyment in a ditch full of water not far north of their Dewald Street ...

The Blacksox are hot. Two nights after putting up 21 hits and 17 runs in a Fourth of July thrashing of Menno, Freeman’s amateur team took down Tabor 14-4 Sunday night, July 6 as part of Freeman’s ...

American pride again on full display as thousands flock to Menno for the biggest small-town Independence Day celebration ...

Harvey J. Hofer, 93, of Freeman, S.D., passed away peacefully on Monday, July 1, 2025, at Oakview Terrace Nursing Home in ...

Gerrit Herman Niemeyer, 78, of Menno, S.D., formerly Inwood, Iowa, passed away Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at his home in Menno ...

Mark Johnson and Austin Smidt man two grills used for cooking chislic during Freeman's Independence Day celebration Sunday, ...