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Hillsdale’s Center for Family Health to close
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Hillsdale’s Center for Family Health to close

  With the Center for Family Health-Hillsdale on West Carleton Road closing on Friday, the building’s doors will shut, but not for long. Hillsdale Hospital plans to fill the building with specialty services in the near future. “It’s a beautiful building and it’s in a prime location for Hillsdale Hospital,” Jeremiah Hodshire, director of organizational...

Hillsdale County residents battle suicide epidemic in local community
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Hillsdale County residents battle suicide epidemic in local community

  When Lorie Nichols’ phone rings, she knows that answering it might put a life in her hands. Sometimes a call comes in the middle of the night, a last grasp at life from a suicidal person who listens to a deeper instinct, or a desperate plea for assistance from the person’s friend. A member...

A fair food pilgrimage
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A fair food pilgrimage

When I took Physical Wellness Dynamics the first semester of freshman year, the “food journal” section had the misfortune of coinciding with the Hillsdale County Fair. For a class of freshmen tasked with recording everything that went into our bodies, this was depressing. The fair offered us elephant ears, funnel cakes, fried Milky Ways —...

City government candidates discuss economic development
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City government candidates discuss economic development

More than a dozen residents and city officials gathered in Handmade Sandwiches and Beverages on Thursday to meet the candidates running for positions in city government. Those running for mayor and city council shared what they hope to accomplish for the City of Hillsdale if elected Nov. 7. The re-occurring theme of Thursday’s discussion was...

County arts programs may suffer under Trump budget
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County arts programs may suffer under Trump budget

  Two organizations in Hillsdale County may have to restructure their budgets if the cuts President Donald Trump proposed to the National Endowment of the Arts in March go into effect. The Hillsdale Arts Chorale and the Sauk Theater receive funding from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Because the grants financing these...