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Hillsdale-based company lights the way for innovation
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Hillsdale-based company lights the way for innovation

    Hillsdale’s Qualite Sports Lighting is one of the world’s top stadium lighting companies. Its newest lighting system — the Q-LED Gamechanger Series — was recently nominated to win the Edison Award, which recognizes product development innovations. Qualite’s main office has been located in Hillsdale for nearly 30 years while making a name for...

‘Beauty and the Beast’: Tropes as old as time, wrongs as old as rhyme
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‘Beauty and the Beast’: Tropes as old as time, wrongs as old as rhyme

Disney’s live action remake of “Beauty and the Beast” took $170 million from American moviegoers in its opening weekend, making it the biggest opening ever for a Disney live action remake or a PG-rated movie. Those are impressive stats, and although “Beauty and the Beast” dazzles, it does not deliver. By clinging tightly to the...

Donations to Hillsdale historical groups piece together town’s history
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Donations to Hillsdale historical groups piece together town’s history

  The Hillsdale County Historical Society and Mitchell Research Center received over 130 donations in 2016 detailing the lives of Hillsdale residents dating back as far as the American Civil War. Donations included yearbooks, genealogies, pictures, newspaper clippings, books, and a plaque. People donate these materials, sometimes dating back to the 1800’s, because they want...

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McCall ’78 to take over Mich. Children’s Service Agency

Hermann McCall ’78 will become the executive director for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Services Agency in late April. McCall is leaving his position of 14 years as director of the Juvenile Justice Programs, a segment of the CSA, to relieve Steve Yager, who retiring after 30 years as the executive...