The smell of freshly roasted coffee beans blankets the air over Broad Street on Tuesday mornings. Beginning at 6 a.m., Michael Nichols pours over whiteboards chalked up with temperatures and roasting times, and then pours 25 pounds of green coffee beans into the large commercial roaster. Hours later, 20 pounds of dark, fragrant beans will...
Saucy Dog’s Barbeque is under new management after Michael Sweeney, once a busboy for the restaurant, purchased the business in July. Sweeney, a Jonesville native and son of Hillsdale College Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney, bought Saucy Dog’s from Wayne Babcock, the owner of Olivia’s Chop House. “I’ve worked here for a long time, and...
About 100 Hillsdale County residents will gather at the Elks Lodge on Saturday to reap the benefits of a month-long local effort to benefit the community. At a luncheon, the Hillsdale Elks Lodge will grant $1,000 to the Hillsdale Salvation Army and distribute canned goods collected from a month-long food drive. Enough for 5,500 pounds...
A drive down Hillsdale’s most crumbling roads may no longer feel like a sudden, unsolicited stint on an old, wooden rollercoaster. Mayoral candidates current Mayor Scott Sessions and City Councilman Adam Stockford have pledged to fix Hillsdale’s disintegrating roads, but their solutions take different paths to even asphalt and patched potholes. Sessions said he...
Several Hillsdale county residents have raised concerns about the Hillsdale County Fair’s decision to replace local employees with outsourced security. Starting last year, the fair’s manager, Mark Williams, said he began employing ADA Security to man the fair’s gates instead of hiring local residents, as the fair had done in the past. He said hiring...