Unlike last year, there shouldn’t be any rain on this year’s light-up parade. The seventh annual Hillsdale Light Up Parade will happen in downtown Hillsdale on Dec. 7 at 6:15 p.m. The light up parade will feature more than 50 entries, including old-fashioned tractors, a choo-choo train, a walking carrot, and walking corn on the...
Year: 2019
‘Vanished Hillsdale’ creates nostalgic products to fundraise for historical organizations
The Vanished Hillsdale Facebook group has come out with a line of products to sell, including t-shirts, mugs, ornaments, clocks, and wall prints. All proceeds will be donated to the Friends of the Mitchell and Hillsdale County Historical Society. The Vanished Hillsdale page shares historical photos and stories with its followers. The group was founded...
Local businesses experience surge in shoppers during holiday season
Across Michigan, the holiday shopping season proves profitable for local retailers, and Hillsdale businesses follow this trend. Womply, a software firm that provides business intelligence and other services to small businesses throughout the country, published a report on Nov. 11, revealing retail shopping trends in Michigan. The study found that five of the top 15...
Christ Chapel architect speaks on design process
Behind the two-and-a-half-year project of building Christ Chapel lay a countless number of creative decisions, from where to place it on campus to what it should look like inside and out, said architect Duncan Stroik, who gave a talk on the project on Nov. 25 in Plaster Auditorium. The first question, before thinking about...
Geyer to retire after 35 years with German dept.
When senior German major Emma Eisenman visited Hillsdale as a prospective student, she already had her heart set on attending a different college. Her meeting with the head of the German department during that visit, however, changed her mind. “Dr. Geyer is the reason I am here, and I am so thankful for it....




