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Alternaprint opens April 1: Hillsdale natives return from Chicago to re-locate business

Alternaprint, a combined custom screen printing and comic book store, will open on April 1. Located on North Howell Street, the screen printing and custom shirt-design business will take over the storefront formerly occupied by Threads, between The Hunt Club and Jilly Beans Coffee House. Andrew and Catie Gibbs, Alternaprint owners and Hillsdale natives, moved...

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Q&A: Kevin Williamson, roving correspondent

Kevin D. Williamson is the roving correspondent for National Review. At Hillsdale, he is teaching a course as the Dow Journalism Program’s spring Pulliam Fellow. He writes on finances with special interest on the debt and deficit and its relationship to politics. Author of three books, his latest is “The End is Near and It’s...

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GOP won’t win with Rand Paul

The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annually convenes a hyper-charged conclave of right leaning (and in my view, right-thinking) activists. This gathering culminates with the announcement of CPAC’s straw poll winner. It is no surprise that Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, an idealist candidate proposing sweeping changes, ignites CPAC since approximately half the attendees are college...

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No charges filed in Ransom shooting

Hillsdale Prosecuting Attorney Neal Brady announced no charges will be filed in relation to last month’s shooting death of James A. Momenee, 47. On March 6, Brady released a written statement concluding that Edward L. Michael, 65, shot and killed his son-in-law, Momenee, on Feb. 12 to defend himself and his family. After detailing Momenee’s...

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UFO: In 1966, Hillsdale had its own close encounter

The night of Monday, March 21, 1966 was pretty typical for the McIntyre Hall residents—until the UFO appeared. At about 10:30 p.m., according to an eyewitness account written by Gidget Kohn three days later, dozens of girls and other witnesses — 87 total — began to watch an “intense silver-white light.” The event was later...