After compiling its best regular season record in five years, the Hillsdale football team has its sights set even higher in 2018. Hillsdale finished 7-4 and in third place in the G-MAC in 2017. According to a preseason coaches poll, the Chargers are expected to again finish third in the nine-team conference, but by a...
Cross Country: Women are defending G-MAC champs
This fall, the Hillsdale women’s cross country team will be kicking off its season earlier than ever. The team will be racing at the Jeff Drenth Memorial in Mount Pleasant, Michigan on Friday. The race will be a 5k for the women against several Division I schools. “It will be cool that we can get...
Salt and Straw Ice Cream perfects crowd management
Going out for ice cream is not always a joy. For most people older than 16, and especially for parents, the combination of lines, crowds, and small children with sugar highs transforms a fun Saturday activity into an anxious game of “Don’t-yell-at-someone-else’s-shrieking-child!” When my mom and I arrived at Salt and Straw in the Portland...
College completes purchase of Mauck Elementary
Joseph W. Mauck Elementary School at 113 E. Fayette St. is just one of several vacant buildings in the City of Hillsdale that are being repurposed and filled. Hillsdale College bought Mauck Elementary School for $390,000 on June 1, and the college plans to begin using the building for various purposes while it discerns...
Looking back on Hillsdale’s first year in the G-MAC
The 2017-2018 academic year was the first time in 42 years that Hillsdale College athletics competed in a conference other than the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). Last year marked the school’s switch to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), an NCAA Division II conference founded in 2011. The Chargers enjoyed a largely successful...




