Due to its dilapidated condition and the danger it poses to public safety, the two-property building on 23 and 25 Broad Street will be demolished by the City of Hillsdale. The city tried to auction off the building after its foreclosure on back taxes, which amounted to about $55,000. When no one bought the building,...
This January, the Hillsdale College American Chemical Society chapter defeated more than 10 statewide universities in the Battle of the Chemistry Clubs at Michigan State University. Though Hillsdale competed against larger schools such as Ferris State and the University of Michigan, Professor of Chemistry and ASC faculty adviser Chris Hamilton said the students’ enthusiasm distinguished...
Dennis Covington was born in 1948 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In college, he studied under American short story writer Peter Taylor at the University of Virginia, where he earned his bachelor’s degree. Covington was drafted upon graduation, and served two years in the U.S. Army before entering the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, whose...
The Hillsdale College Chargers split two away games last weekend, losing on Friday to University of Southern Indiana in a close 4-3 match in Evansville, Indiana, and sweeping Bellarmine University 4-0 on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky. The loss against Southern Indiana marks the team’s first of the season. “We were coming off of a pretty...
Prestley Blake, the 104-year-old co-founder of Friendly’s restaurant chain, brims daily with new ideas, his lawyer said — and one of his latest is to give 90 acres of property, including a replica of Monticello, to Hillsdale College to use as an educational center. Months later, that idea is coming closer to fruition, pending mostly...