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Off the record

My greatest fear as an intern reporter was the I.T. guy. He wanted me to play on the office softball team, and although I like baseball, I didn’t think that spending my Saturday mornings on a dusty softball field in the hot, D.C. sun with a bunch of people that I didn’t even  know sounded...

Florists bloom, bring beauty to Hillsdale
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Florists bloom, bring beauty to Hillsdale

A bright yellow bike stands outside of the shop on Broad Street, matching the sunflowers filling the big window. Jane Stewart, the owner of Smith’s Flowers, greets each customer that walks into her little flower shop as if they were lifelong friends. “Hello, sweetie,” she says. Or, “Here are your flowers, honey.” Smith’s Flowers and...

TOMMY LUNDBERG: UNDERGROUND ARTIST
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TOMMY LUNDBERG: UNDERGROUND ARTIST

This summer, the walls in the basement of the Sigma Chi house became one artist’s canvas—a canvas that now holds the very first paintings of an art major. Before this May, senior art major Tommy Lundberg had never picked up a paintbrush. However, a visitor to the house would never know that the Detroit Tigers,...

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2012: Worst apple shortage in six decades

Ninety percent of Michigan’s apple crop was destroyed in 2012 due to temperature fluctuations in the spring, bringing difficulty to orchards around the state and in the Hillsdale area. “We’re used to fluctuations in the weather,” Damon Glei, partial owner at Glei’s Orchards and Greenhouses, said. “But this is the most extreme case that we...

The art and science of cooking
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The art and science of cooking

When junior Aaron Sandford cooks dinner, he tries to think like a scientist. “I like to understand the science of why brining a chicken in salt water before you cook it makes it more tender,” he said. “I like knowing what makes a dish good and then combining those concepts with other dishes.” Sandford is...