A multi-decade adventure that included standing in the jail cell of a martyr, holding a prayer book from the sixteenth century, and journeying through foreign countries has culminated in a groundbreaking new text. Professor of English Stephen Smith co-edited a newly released book, “The Essential Works of Thomas More,” with Gerard Wegemer, professor of English...
Year: 2020
Use makeup to reflect human nature: Celebrities, influencers use social media to push beauty products, trends that reflect false reality
Though we often talk about the unrealistic standards set by the beauty industry, one may not have expected the next step in the beautifying process would be giving up our own blood cells. Known as a “vampire facial,” the doctor will draw your blood, extract the platelet-rich plasma, and apply it topically. Kim Kardashian is...
County receives $2.6M for road maintenance
The Michigan Department of Transportation gave Hillsdale County $2.6 million in funding for various road projects in 2020. Funding from MDOT, which was announced last fall, will go toward several portions of M-49 and M-99. According to Kelby Wallace, manager at MDOT’s Jackson Transportation Service Center, his office has not set a construction schedule yet....
Conservation Club prepares for its 60th annual Tip-Up Festival
The Hillsdale County Conservation Club will hold its 60th annual Tip-Up Festival, featuring euchre tournaments, a fishing contest, coyote and squirrel hunting contests, and music by the DJ “Sound Generator.” The Tip-Up Festival will begin on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. with a euchre tournament. The fishing contest and coyote contest both begin on Jan....
Core and conversation inspire Catholic conversion at Hillsdale
At a college where more than 90% of students actively practice a religion and where debates about transubstantiation versus consubstantiation, the significance of Christ’s incarnation, and, most contentiously, Mary’s perpetual virginity echo through the halls, Catholicism seems to be gaining new ground. Between 2016 and 2019, 76 people converted to Catholicism at St. Anthony of...




