Seven months after setting fire to Briner Oil in Jonesville, convicted arsonist Douglas Michael Jones, 50, was sentenced to nine months in prison and three months probation Monday. Jones, a former employee of the oil and fuel distribution company, set fire to the building in Sep. 2020. Local police confronted Jones soon after identifying him...
On March 29, Hillsdale County Health Department expanded COVID-19 vaccine distribution to ages 16 and up, leading to a climb in vaccination numbers in recent weeks, as county officials call for greater vaccination rates. While the State Health Department mandated counties expand distribution to ages 16+ on April 5, a week earlier, county health officials...
Photography has become a central activity of our lives. We are always behind a phone or camera capturing the moments that are in front of us. But I would argue that picture taking is soon to be a thing of the past. The world is moving in a different direction — video creation. Videography is...
Students in a video course have turned a hallowed part of Hillsdale College history into a documentary film. “A Better Kind of Glory” tells the story of how Hillsdale’s football team declined its invitation to play in the 1955 Tangerine Bowl because the game’s organizers refused to let black athletes play. The film will be...
We were excited to see the sign at the Lansing Mall: Barnes & Noble Booksellers. My roommate and I, on our spring break excursions, were shopping outside the small town of Hillsdale, when we spotted the national bookselling chain. We envisioned a long hour of perusing the great books — from Cicero to Tolstoy, Shakespeare...