When you walk into the Hillsdale Community Library on the third Tuesday of any given month, you’ll find as many as a dozen teens and adults gathered around tables with cardstock coloring pages and colored pencils engaging in one of the latest fads: adult coloring. The Color Café began more than a year ago under...
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March 3, 2016July 12, 2022Opinions
Don’t leave your ATM receipt behind
Receipts scatter the floor around the ATM machines in the Grewcock Student Union. Some are left atop the machine beside a ring from a coffee cup — the students remembered the java, but not the ATM receipt. Fifth Third and County National banks both have ATMs in the union. Fifth Third receipts display the name...
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March 3, 2016July 12, 2022Opinions
Hillsdale educates good educators
Today, 40 classical schools from 22 states are seeking seniors who can be to the students in their schools what Hillsdale professors have been to Hillsdale graduates. Seniors who become classical school teachers do not abandon the collegial community they were a part of at Hillsdale. While their roles and castmates do change, they continue...
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March 3, 2016July 12, 2022Features
Market House continues family legacy of giving back to community
Market House owner Brett Boyd said he loves giving back to the community by providing produce, dairy and baked goods to local fundraisers and charities. Giving back is a family legacy, he said, ever since the local grocery company was founded 75 years ago. “My great grandfather started the company and giving back to the...
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March 3, 2016July 12, 2022City News
Out of 801 felonies, none went to jury
70 percent of felonies get reduced to misdemeanors or dismissed None of the 801 felonies issued in Hillsdale County in the past two years made it to jury trial. According to Circuit Court Judge Michael Smith, seven out of every 10 people charged with felonies have their charges dismissed or reduced to a misdemeanor, which...