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‘Doing our best’: Restaurants cope with staffing, supply issues
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‘Doing our best’: Restaurants cope with staffing, supply issues

As supply chain and hiring issues grip the nation, local restaurants in Hillsdale are learning to cope with staff shortages, price increases, and delivery hiccups.  “We can’t find new help,” said Terri White, manager at The Hunt Club. “We can’t find people that want to help.” Covering for unfilled openings and frequent call-outs, White works...

Ramshackle Brewing taps into local restaurants, serves community
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Ramshackle Brewing taps into local restaurants, serves community

“What kind of ramshackle operation are you running?” These are the words Zack Bigelow’s father asked when he first saw his son’s homemade brewing equipment more than a decade ago. Today, Bigelow runs Ramshackle Brewing Company, a quaint brewery next to Olivia’s Chop House in Jonesville.  Since opening the doors in July 2019, Bigelow and...

Organists: Please pipe down in the chapel
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Organists: Please pipe down in the chapel

I’m tired of doing the chapel dance.  It’s my near-daily routine of walking into Christ Chapel, hearing the blaring organ, and walking right back out.  The beautiful chapel was built to give our campus a spiritual center, a place for students to gather and pray. Instead, the chapel has become the nation’s largest rehearsal studio....

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COVID-19 cases on the rise on campus

Campus is “doing well” with its handling of COVID-19, according to Director of Health Services Brock Lutz.  As of Monday, six students were in isolation after receiving positive tests, bringing the semester total to 100 students tested, 61 of which were positive, according to Health Services.  “We have had a steady flow of positive cases...