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Great Cookbooks: Fannie in the kitchen
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Great Cookbooks: Fannie in the kitchen

Every family has a handful of recipes that are more than staples: They’re family legend. Gramma’s banana bread, with a vinegar-milk mixture in place of buttermilk. Steve’s chicken chili. George Washington’s pea soup. The recipes are a weird conglomeration of your parents’ favorites: For me, that’s the stew my dad’s mom always made, a casserole...

Freshman class joins championship roster as spring season begins
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Freshman class joins championship roster as spring season begins

The Hillsdale College Chargers will kick off their spring season on Sunday, hosting Davenport University. Following a dominant 2017-2018 season that ended with a G-MAC championship, Hillsdale will look to follow up that success with more in their second year in the conference. Davenport’s fall record was 1-8, and although Hillsdale didn’t have any formal...

Hillsdale’s poverty exemptions passed by Council
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Hillsdale’s poverty exemptions passed by Council

Hillsdale City Council adopted state-mandated poverty exemption 2019 guidelines,  allowing homeowners who meet federal poverty income guidelines to receive property tax relief. “Given the makeup of Hillsdale, it’s beneficial for the people who live here,” Ward 4 Councilman Ray Briner said. “It helps a variety of people stay in their homes, and in Hillsdale.” The...

To face a monster
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To face a monster

One year ago, 19-year-old Hillsdale freshman Kara Johnson stood before a monster. She remembers how fast her heart beat and how her hands shook as she held her prepared remarks. But climbing onto a podium in a small Lansing, Michigan courtroom, Johnson disregarded her fear, looked her monster in the eyes, and began to speak....