S ometimes I stop what I am doing and daydream about a class I took seven months ago. I think about the manatee that swam by me in Zane Grey Creek, fishing for sharks with my friends after hours of identifying snails in the lab, the fresh seafood I mowed on at Whale Harbor Buffet,...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
Don’t call it a holiday tree: it’s a damn christmas tree
Ho, ho, ho! Merry holiday! Each holiday season, it seems that more and more public locations are putting up “holiday trees,” instead of Christmas trees. Unsurprisingly, there is no visual difference between the two decorations; only the name differs. Last year, Republican Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee proclaimed that the state’s Christmas tree would be...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022Opinions
Cheating scandal highlights flawed education system
The quick peek at the closest test. The whispering of an answer to the kid in the front row. The reading of the crumpled cheat sheet when the teacher’s not looking. This is what usually comes to mind when one thinks of cheating in school. Students cheat and of course this is a problem with...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022City News
This week in Hillsdale History
1870 — Christopher Dickerson, a general (and prisoner) of the Civil War, purchases Cedar Island on Lake Baw Beese. Following his death two years later, his son would give a man named Bud Sellars, later known as the famous “Hermit of Cedar Island,” permission to take up residence there. Though not truly a hermit, Sellars...
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December 6, 2012July 12, 2022City News
Local man arrested for criminal sexual conduct with minor
The Hillsdale Circuit Court postponed the pretrial for resident Jerome Lee Mattson from Nov. 26 to Jan. 7 to allow time for further investigation. Mattson is accused of having criminal sexual conduct with his live-in girlfriend’s 9-year-old daughter last December. According to her testimony at the preliminary exam, the girl was taking a nap in...