The city of Hillsdale announced the sale of 180 acres in the Hillsdale Manufacturing and Technology park to private developers, said Mayor Adam Stockford. Commonwealth Development is purchasing 30 acres of this land and is in the preliminary planning stages for the property. Rick Jenkins, general manager at Stoll Construction, said Stoll is working with...
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‘Cheer’ returns confidently amid overwhelming fame
The Netflix docu-series “Cheer” was a smash hit. Avid viewers of the show have anxiously awaited the arrival of season two since the moment we watched the Navarro Community College cheer team win their 14th national championship, and this nine episode collection did not disappoint. A combination of the bleakness of quarantining in 2020 and...
Texas bill shines a new light on abortion
The Supreme Court of the United States has considered dozens of abortion cases in the last half century, but Americans are still confronted with a confusing maze of rulings, legal jargon, and an utter failure to settle the matter. It all stems from a single problem: the court’s refusal to define a person as protected...
Disaster in Tonga: Hillsdale alumnus weighs in on volcanic eruption
An underwater volcano erupted off the coast of the Kingdom of Tonga, a Pacific island country, on Jan. 15. The explosion released 18 megatons of energy, making it 1,200 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Joseph Cella, former ambassador to Tonga and Hillsdale College alumnus, explained how...
Columbian student to bring his homegrown coffee to Hillsdale
Tucked away in a small valley in the Northern hills of Columbia lies fields teeming with coffee beans and sugar cane plants. This is the home of Café Coronel, a coffee company named after Colonel Ariel Vargas, better known in Hillsdale as senior Juan Vargas Hernández’s father. Seven years ago, the Vargas family traded the...