Four bands—Luxury Flux, Trash Cats, Big Bad Wolf, and Muskin—competed for a grand prize of $1,000 in the third round of Broad Street’s annual Battle of the Bands. For the first time, the County Fair stepped in to raise the stakes, offering the winner a stage at the Hillsdale County Fair. Kory Osmun, co-founder of...
“Poor girls.” The refrain resonates, echoing with regret for generations of victims of circumstance. Simple and elegiac, the central phrase of “The Girls” mourns the unsung potential of women shattered by societal expectations. Emma Cline’s eagerly anticipated debut novel about a woman haunted by memories of the Manson murders earned a prominent place in...
Hillsdale College’s radio station WRFH 101.7 FM went off the air for two hours Friday, as a result of the computer’s motherboard crashing. The cause of the failing motherboard is unknown, WRFH General Manager Scot Bertram said, adding he hopes a new motherboard will arrive by the end of the week, so it can resume...
Gregory Lawrence Kuhn, 28, was arrested in late August on a felony warrant for distributing sexually explicit verbal or visual material to a minor. According to Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Megan Stiverson, the material distributed was nude photographs considered harmful in nature, which were distributed to a 16-year-old girl. Stiverson was not aware of the...
Bill Zeiser, a 4th year PhD student enrolled at Hillsdale’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, was elected earlier this month to Hillsdale’s City Council. Zeiser was elected as a representative of Hillsdale’s Ward III in a close race between candidate Julian Kast and himself. With only 254 ballots cast, Zeiser beat Kast by a...