The Hillsdale County Intermediate School Board voted sole applicant Laurie Brendes to the board Feb. 6 to fill the vacancy left by Parke Hayes. Brendes is on the Hillsdale Community Schools board also and has served there for 16 years. She believes that her knowledge and skill from that experience will be useful to the...
Year: 2014
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Humans of Hillsdale: here’s to you, Kevin
Off the beaten paths of Howell and North Broad Street sits a place where $1, 10-ounce frosty drafts are not a special, but a standard. As customers head to this “irish style” pub, quite often they are greeted by a nickname and a cold brew. It is easy to tell that customers feel welcomed. Here’s...
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Chargers pound panthers by 31
The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team started off its week in disappointing fashion. But they couldn’t have ended the week any better. After a tough 75-70 loss in overtime on the road against Tiffin University, the Chargers bounced back at home against Ohio Dominican University, routing the Panthers 87-56. “We played with a lot of...
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Vanished Hillsdale
Esli K. Crocker was born in 1859 on a farm in North Reading. He learned how to train horses from his father, but he soon surpassed his old man in years. By the mid-1880s, he was known as Professor E.K. Crocker and had taken his “educated horses, ponies and mules” on the road. His first...
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Local prosecutors launch assault on synthetic marijuana
They made $191,791 in under two months while pretending to sell tattoos and supplies in Camden, Mich., a town of barely 500 people. But Penny Hawkins, manager of The Clubhouse restaurant, said that everyone knew what the couple was really doing. “Cars came with liscense plates from Ohio and Indiana,” she said. “They spent two...