Desiree Jordan Sherman, 21, accepted a plea bargain of no contest to one count of assault and battery in Hillsdale County Circuit Court on Nov. 25. The prosecutor agreed to drop Sherman’s four other charges of assault with intent to commit murder, resisting and obstructing, interfering with electronic communications, and assault and battery of a...
Year: 2013
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Rent permit requirements to be enforced
Five years after going into effect, the Hillsdale City ordinance requiring inspection of rental property is going to be enforced. The City Planning Commission discussed plans to enforce the existing property use and occupancy ordinance citing the blight as one motivator to uphold the inspection requirement at its Nov. 19 meeting. Now when the city...
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Neighborly feud ends in home invasion and assault charges
The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s department arrested Victor Jason Owens, 59, of Osseo, Mich., Monday after a dispute with a neighbor. Owens was arraigned in the Hillsdale County District Court on charges of first degree home invasion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. His bond is set at $5,000 with...
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Vanished Hillsdale
Hillsdale’s beloved Lake Baw Beese derived its name from Potawatomi Indian chieftain Baw Beese, whose tribe of about 150 members settled on the banks of the lake sometime in the first quarter of the 19th century. While Baw Beese and his tribe roamed as whim, game, and season led them, present-day Hillsdale County and the...
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Volume Salon reopens offering massages, manicures
Volume Salon and Spa hairdressers chat with customers while snipping and styling. “Be your own kind of beautiful” is stenciled on the wall, situated between mirrors that allow customers to look back at themselves and contemplate the phrase. The Hillsdale salon reopened in June 2013 on East Bacon Street across from Hillsdale Community Library. Their...