On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Allied nations and Germany agreed to an armistice, beginning the process of ending World War I. The day was memorialized as Armistice Day, and many Americans still observe a few moments of silence for the tens of millions killed and...
Month: November 2015
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City to update generators for $1.2 million
The Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities plans to spend $1.2 million to update the generators at Baw Beese Lake and replace the town sewage treatment plant in order to have reliable emergency power. “The engines at Baw Beese Lake haven’t been operated for two years,” Michael Barber, interim Director for the Board of Public Utilities...
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Hillsdale alumna helps reverse Columbia med school decision
Danielle Simpson ’13, back row on the left in green, stands with other medical students in the #growfamilymedicine. This picture was taken at one of the student-run free clinics overseen by family medicine physicians. Danielle Simpson | Courtesy It took less than 36 hours for a highly ranked New York City hospital to fire and...
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Hillsdale’s history lives on in graveyard
One of the grave sites in the Oak Grove Cemetery. Breana Noble | Collegian Sometimes dead people tell better stories than the living, and few do it better than those buried in Hillsdale’s Oak Grove Cemetery. Richmond Melendy’s tomb is modest, but he started a company of volunteers for the Union army during the...
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Fix WebAdvisor
I thought my final time registering for classes would go much more smoothly than it did Monday morning. Like every year, I woke up early, watched until the second hand hit 7:00 a.m., clicked “Submit,” and prayed WebAdvisor would work. Unlike most years, I wasn’t overly stressed because I wasn’t trying to get into Dr....