In basketball, there’s no such thing as an easy stretch of games. But for the Chargers, it couldn’t get much tougher than what they’ll face in the next five days. After comfortably beating Lake Erie College and Ashland University this past week, the Hillsdale College men’s basketball team now faces a tough stretch of three...
Month: January 2014
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Vanished Hillsdale: from retirement home plans to Hayden Park trails
The hills and trails of Hillsdale College’s Hayden Park were not always intended for their current athletic use. For many years, the college intended the property to be the site of Independence Grove, billed to friends of the school as “a retirement community that values intelligence, integrity, and independence.” Although about 35 depositors expressed...
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Remembering Parke Hayes
The Voice of Charger Basketball fell silent earlier this month. A lifetime Hillsdale resident, Hillsdale College graduate, longtime radio announcer for WCSR, and active agent in local politics, Parke Hayes, 67, passed away on Jan. 10. Hayes was, in the words of one WCSR colleague, “the consummate multitasker” – a man of many hats who...
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Arresting beauty: Daughtrey exhibits ‘Perspectives on Photography’
When Andy Dufresne, acted by Tim Robbins, plays an angelically beautiful opera aria over the prison PA system in “The Shawshank Redemption,” the camera pans across hundreds of convicts in the prison yard standing enraptured by the music. Photographer Mark James says that is what he wants to do with his photography. “I want beauty...
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Hillsdale Community Foundation Distributes Winter Awards
On Jan. 3, 2014, the Hillsdale County Community Foundation announced the recipients of its biannual, winter grant awards. Many local nonprofits competed in a rigorous application and selection process for a portion of the foundation’s $39,618 to use for projects that are required to benefit a large number of Hillsdale County residents. “It’s helped us...