This Friday at 8 p.m., Hillsdale students will have the opportunity to experience Plaster Auditorium’s inaugural performance — jazz. The Hillsdale College John E.N. & Dede Howard Department of Music will present “Big Band and Little Big Band,” a jazz concert featuring Mike Williams, the lead trumpet for the Count Basie Orchestra, one of...
The Hillsdale Mock Trial enjoyed a standout weekend with two of their three mock trial teams placing in their respective tournaments. Team 1149 finished fourth at Penn State and Team 1150 finished third at Case Western. To top it off, the program scored several individual awards recognizing standout witness and attorney performances by Bryson Phillipe,...
Vaping is growing into a nationwide epidemic for youth, and Hillsdale County is no exception. To prevent the trend from continuing in Hillsdale schools, Jackson Intermediate School District is hosting “Vaping Solution Room,” a training seminar for teachers and administrators on Nov. 5 from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Jackson IDS is one of 56 Michigan...
Bon Appetit’s lunchtime project “Weigh the Waste” showed Hillsdale College students and guests just how much food they waste: 418 pounds over the course of five lunch periods, to be exact. That corresponds to 334 meals. Bon Appetit Marketing Coordinator William Persson said Bon Appetit runs this project across all of its accounts around the...
A proposed wind farm in Hillsdale County’s Wheatland Township has been met with the resistance of 120 angry residents. Members from the group “Informed Citizens of Wheatland Township” gathered outside Wheatland Township Hall during the Oct. 8 township board meeting to voice their disapproval for the wind farm initially proposed from Invenergy, an Illinois-based energy...