When Kevin Meyers graduated from Hillsdale College in 2009 with German and history majors, he never imagined that he would be running one of the most successful businesses for baby products three years later. Kevin Meyers and his wife Haily Meyers sold their first product from their business Lucy Darling in 2012 and were officially...
Author: Julia Mullins
Hillsdale alumni clerk for Supreme Court justices
Manuel Valle ’11 will become Hillsdale’s seventh graduate in the past eight years to clerk for a Supreme Court justice. During the October 2021 term, Valle will clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas. Professor of Philosophy and Religion Nathan Schlueter, who is also the faculty adviser for the college’s Federalist Society, said Valle will be the...
Historic Seagrave Firetruck prompts Hillsdale Historical Society to build new museum
The Hillsdale Historical Society will have a new barn and museum to hold the 88-year-old original Seagrave Firetruck on the Poor House grounds. According to Hillsdale Historical Society board member Darin Sheffer, the City of Hillsdale purchased the 1931 Seagrave and it was delivered to the city in January of 1932. “It has a vignette...
Emergency risk protection orders: point of compromise on gun control
A man in Washington posted on Facebook in June that he wanted to commit a mass shooting at a synagogue and that he was “shooting for 30 Jews.” He previously posted photos of himself with firearms and Nazi salutes. Law enforcement officers in Washington obtained an emergency risk protection order (ERPO) and removed an AR-15...
Hillsdale’s Family Video was bought by Dollar General, will close its doors Sept. 30
The Family Video store on E. Carleton Road in Hillsdale will be closing its doors on Monday, Sept. 30. Everything at the store is being sold at liquidation prices until Sept. 29. The parent company of Family Video, Highland Ventures Ltd., will continue to own the building but will lease the space out to Dollar...