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Kiwanis Club donates dictionaries, thesauri to Hillsdale County Schools students
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Kiwanis Club donates dictionaries, thesauri to Hillsdale County Schools students

An annual project sponsored by the Hillsdale Kiwanis Club is causing a stir of excitement for local students this month. Each fall, the club hands out free reference books to students in all the Hillsdale County schools: dictionaries for third graders, thesauri for seventh graders, and foreign-language dictionaries for high school classes. “It’s a really...

Monument honoring Ladies of Hillsdale installed at Oak Grove Cemetery
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Monument honoring Ladies of Hillsdale installed at Oak Grove Cemetery

A monument built in honor of The Ladies of Hillsdale was completed at the Oak Grove Cemetery this month. After designing a plan for the monument, Carol Lackey, a lifelong Hillsdale resident, presented her idea to the cemetery board this past Feb. The Hillsdale city council then approved her plans for the monument, located near...

Vote recount reveals 19 write-ins, for Sanders, McMullin, Sasse, others
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Vote recount reveals 19 write-ins, for Sanders, McMullin, Sasse, others

  After recounting ballots cast in Nov. 8’s general election, Hillsdale County election officials discovered 19 votes for write-in candidates not reflected on Election Magic, the website centralizing and disseminating the vote data. Citizens of Hillsdale’s Ward 4 and Allen requested the recount during the Nov. 9 canvasser meeting after seeing zero votes were recorded...

Grosvenor House to host haunted Halloween Poe readings
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Grosvenor House to host haunted Halloween Poe readings

Jonesville’s historic Grosvenor House Museum is hosting a night of haunted Halloween readings and local lore featuring everything from the work of artists such as Edgar Allen Poe to those by local volunteers beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28. Doughnuts and apple cider will be provided afterward. The Halloween reading is the next...