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Mayor Stockford works to create neighborhood meetings with police
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Mayor Stockford works to create neighborhood meetings with police

Mayor Adam Stockford’s latest Facebook post idea for garnering trust and friendship in Hillsdale will turn into regular neighborhood meetings between the police and Hillsdale County citizens.  “I actually had the idea when I was watching TV. I can’t remember the show, but they were having a neighborhood meeting,” Stockford said. “An officer was standing...

#SwansAren’tReal
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#SwansAren’tReal

When you next stroll through the Arboretum on a sunny spring day, enjoying the ambiance of babbling waterfalls, lush green grass, and lover swans sailing in pairs across the pond…..look a little closer. You will find their wings just a little too white, their beaks just a tad too orange, and their sailing just a...

Quick Hits: Brent Cline
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Quick Hits: Brent Cline

If you could only read one author every day for the rest of your life, who would it be?  I’d say Dostoevsky or Tolkien. But then my son was like, ‘No dad, this one too!’ and he’s right: Calvin and Hobbes. We read it almost every single day.  What is one trend from your teenage...

‘Jackson county’s best kept secret’
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‘Jackson county’s best kept secret’

It’s a rare kind of instrument that requires naughty Catholic school children to produce sound. But this is exactly what the church organ requires. Most organs have a pedal at the organist’s feet that blows wind through its reeds to make it sing. But the church organ’s pedal protrudes directly out of its side —...

Q&A: Sister Miriam James Heidland
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Q&A: Sister Miriam James Heidland

Sister Miriam James Heidland, a former Division I volleyball player, is a sister of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity.  Q: Do you still get the chance to play volleyball? A: Every now and then, yeah. When I lived in Seattle, I played in an adult league which was a lot...