The Hillsdale College Chargers spent Thanksgiving in Winter Park, Florida for the Rollins Thanksgiving Tournament and picked up their first win of the season during the trip. But before playing games on Friday and Saturday, the team visited Universal Studios and Disney’s Magic Kingdom on Nov. 21 and enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner with teammates and...
The Hillsdale County Community Foundation recently granted $15,000 to the GOAL programs, with grants ranging from $250 to $1,000. President and CEO of HCCF Sharon Bisher said HCCF’s traditional funding cycle doesn’t match well with the school year and progression of GOAL programs, prompting to HCCF to design and offer grants specifically designed for GOAL...
Eric Leutheuser thought he was well-known. As the owner of the Hillsdale’s Buick GMC car dealership for three decades, he spent thousands of dollars advertising his name. But when he decided to run for state representative in Michigan’s 58th district in the 2014 elections, he quickly found out that the people of Branch County, a...
Only a maniac would adapt “Moby Dick” for the screen—so it’s a good thing John Huston was crazy. The American director best known for “The African Queen” (1951), “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), and “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) almost always captained movies based on novels. But his 1956 adaptation of Herman Melville’s whale...
When I was five or six years old, the most exciting part of Christmas Eve wasn’t falling asleep with the anticipation of opening presents the next morning. It wasn’t eating cookies or seeing the bright lights up and down the streets of the neighborhood. It wasn’t even watching the snow fall softly outside the window...