The smell of freshly roasted coffee beans blankets the air over Broad Street on Tuesday mornings. Beginning at 6 a.m., Michael Nichols pours over whiteboards chalked up with temperatures and roasting times, and then pours 25 pounds of green coffee beans into the large commercial roaster. Hours later, 20 pounds of dark, fragrant beans will...
Wherever popularity goes, parking problems follow. L. W. Meeks recounted in a local newspaper in 1950 his first visit to the Hillsdale County Fair in 1897. After a seven-mile wagon ride, almost all of the hitching space for the horses were full. Afterall, he was at “The Most Popular Fair on Earth.” Although the Hillsdale...
At 4:30 AM on August 25th, I stood crying in the kitchen of my parents’ new house in Arlington. I was washing dishes and waiting for the taxi to take me to the airport. Hours away, in Michigan, my Grandma was dying, facing the final struggle in an unbelievably rapid battle with cancer. Mom...
In a record-setting classic last Saturday, the Hillsdale Chargers lost 45-38 to the No. 14 University of Indianapolis Greyhounds on the road, dropping to 2-2 this season. The Greyhounds remain undefeated and improved to No. 10 in the NCAA’s Division II football rankings after the victory. Indianapolis also narrowed the difference in the all-time series...
Saucy Dog’s Barbeque is under new management after Michael Sweeney, once a busboy for the restaurant, purchased the business in July. Sweeney, a Jonesville native and son of Hillsdale College Professor of Accounting Michael Sweeney, bought Saucy Dog’s from Wayne Babcock, the owner of Olivia’s Chop House. “I’ve worked here for a long time, and...