The Hillsdale Garden Club gave Hillsdale residents the opportunity to begin preparing for Christmas, discover their green thumb, and support beautification projects throughout the city with its annual green sale, which concluded Oct. 15. Now that the nonprofit garden club has finished taking orders, members are beginning to construct 150 floral arrangements, wreaths, roping,...
Derek Spiteri, son of Checker Records owner John Spiteri, opened the sandwich shop Handmade in the old Oakley building on Hillsdale Street last week, after a year of renovations. The old Oakley-style bread is back, with all sorts of new additions: the sandwich shop also features specialty coffee drinks, ice cream, and a cool...
Two separate groups of people wearing clown masks, one made up of students and one of Hillsdale residents, were seen on campus Tuesday evening, causing a stir on social media and resulting in multiple reports to campus security. Hillsdale Police Chief Scott Hephner said it is not likely anyone will be charged with an official...
With the financial assistance of a $28,000 federal grant aimed at helping rural communities, the Hillsdale police department plans to purchase another police vehicle and body cameras for all of their officers in hopes of increasing community transparency. “We do periodically have issues brought up about how an instance was handled by an officer...
Record crop production in southern Michigan this year is driving up competition for commodity farmers, some of whom are not going to be able to sell all of their crops. “The prices are terrible,” Hillsdale County farmer Bill Hayward said. “A lot of farmers are not going to make it.” Several farmers are reporting a...