Clear, blue skies and vividly hued leaves served as the backdrop for Hillsdale Hospital Birthing Center’s 13th annual Walk of Remembrance held at Owens Park on Oct. 14. This year’s lakeside event, put on by volunteers from Hillsdale Hospital’s OB-GYN unit, included a memorial service, rose ceremony, remembrance walk, and balloon release. Designated in 1988...
Men take seventh at SRU meet
The Hillsdale Chargers took seventh place out of 29 teams at the Division II Pre-National meet at Slippery Rock University on Saturday. The team was led by junior Joey Humes, who finished fourth overall and won his third G-MAC Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Week award, the most of any Hillsdale athlete this year....
In defense of candy corn: Hearkening to America’s beginnings
If you’re going to publicly declare your affection for a food that has the odor and texture of a tacky Walmart candle, a decent respect of oneself requires a statement of the causes impelling one to that preference. Since I was old enough to scowl for family pictures, I fled with my family every few...
The Weekly: Pay attention to foreign affairs
This week, two international incidents dragged Americans’ attention away from the midterm election cycle and Washington, D.C. politics: the death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey, and a thousands-strong migrant caravan making its way up from Central America. Clearly intersecting with American politics, these issues remind us that...
Office Hours: Cast your ballot: Voting is a declaration for peace over battle
I voted for the first time during a midterm election. We experienced it while living under two distinct shadows. It was the first federal election after 9/11. A world made new, in ways we then could hardly fathom, had changed our lives and our politics more than anything I had yet seen. It was also...




