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‘Two tickets to paradise’: music legend comes to Hillsdale

Eddie Money will perform his signature hits, including “Baby Hold On” and “Two Tickets to Paradise,” at the Hillsdale County Fair on Sept. 29. Money, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, began performing music in the late 1960s after a brief stint as a police officer; he’d played since high school. “You know, all the football players...

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Missing man found in Defiance, Ohio

A Hart, Mich. native was found in Defiance, Ohio on Feb. 21 after walking away from the Michindoh Ministries Conference Center in Hills-dale on the previous Saturday afternoon.

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Hillsdale men died in history’s deadliest maritime disaster

The reverberating boom and yellow flash of flame pierced the quiet darkness of the early morning hours on April 27, 1865. The blast launched hundreds of former Union prisoners of war into the cool waters of the Mississippi River, where they desperately grabbed onto each other and drowned in groups. It was the deadliest maritime...

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Space on Smith’s mind

In the evening hours of the 1920s, at a small house on Griswold Street, one man was changing the world. When Edward “Doc” Smith came to Hillsdale, Michigan in 1920, space was on his mind. Smith arrived in Hillsdale in the spring of that year, after earning two degrees from the University of Idaho. He...