Road construction on Fayette Street continues as scheduled, with construction slated to finish as soon as November. Hoffman Bros. Inc. of Battle Creek, MI, the contractors who won the project bid in July, began construction on the 1,254-foot section of road adjacent to M-99 on Sept. 9. The city plans to totally reconstruct the quarter-mile...
Silos Fun Park/Cottage Inn Pizza Coronavirus Update
On Oct. 9, Silos Fun Park opened its arcade for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Silos Fun Park, which began operations under new ownership on March 3, now serves the public from 4 p.m. to closing on weekdays and during regular business hours on Saturday and Sunday. Silos Fun Park,...
Step outside of the Hillsdale bubble for Curate content
For most of its existence, Hillsdale’s monthly women’s newsletter, Curate, has featured women who work and live in Hillsdale. That all changed with the latest issue, when the newsletter featured one alumna who does not live or work in the area. This should not be an anomaly, but the norm. Curate arrived on the Hillsdale...
Fraternity welcomes campus to OcTAUberfest
The first all-campus Greek event of the year, OcTAUberfest, will take place during Parents’ Weekend this Saturday at Hillsdale’s Beta Kappa chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. “I think that emotionally, COVID-19 has taken a big toll on all of us students,” said senior Matthew Pfeifer, a member of ATO. “OcTAUberfest is the...
Fall break: One thing COVID-19 didn’t ruin this semester
On Sept. 25, Carolyn Milligan, assistant to the vice president of student affairs, sent out an unprecedented email that urged students to remain on campus over both Fall and Thanksgiving break “in order to avoid an increase in transmissions” of COVID-19. While many students had already made plans to leave, Residence Assistants were urged to...




