From transforming a garage into a living space to installing heated toilet seats, the Nortons are the Chip and Joanna Gaines of Hillsdale. Their current project is a new home on Hillsdale Street called The Kempton Residence. “The owner approached us and asked if we’d have any interest in buying the house,” Bob Norton said....
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Hillsdale will celebrate Light Up Parade in downtown this Saturday
Unlike last year, there shouldn’t be any rain on this year’s light-up parade. The seventh annual Hillsdale Light Up Parade will happen in downtown Hillsdale on Dec. 7 at 6:15 p.m. The light up parade will feature more than 50 entries, including old-fashioned tractors, a choo-choo train, a walking carrot, and walking corn on the...
Hillsdale students from cross-cultural homes share their stories
Every once in a while, I disappear to a place none of my friends have visited: Chile. Twenty-five years ago my dad, an American man named Tim, started working as a mining engineer in Tucson, Arizona. One weekend, he decided to vacation in Prague, in the Czech Republic A Chilean woman — Rosario — who...
William Westney performs Chopin with ‘virtuosic flash’
It’s two weeks until classical pianist William Westney will say ‘adieu’ as a faculty professor at Texas Tech College. But first, he made a pit-stop at Hillsdale for one of his final performances of his 41-year career. “We look for these peak experiences in performing and you never know when it’s going to happen,” Westney...
Charger Chatter: Pat Cartier
Pat Cartier is a sophomore on the men’s basketball team from Brookfield, Wisconsin. What did the recruitment process look like when you came to Hillsdale? I first got recruited through a connection of my high school coach at Michigan Tech. A lot of times when one school recruits you, then the other schools in that...