The Hillsdale Community Library will hold an open house to welcome its new director, Bryonna Barton, next Thursday Dec. 9 from 4-6 p.m. The event will include snacks, drinks, and a grand prize drawing for a “Welcome to Hillsdale” gift basket, along with drawings for other gift cards to local businesses. The Library Board will...
Thirty teams will put their gingerbread house decorating skills to the test on Friday night at the annual Student Activities Board sponsored Gingerbread Wars. At 7 p.m. on Dec. 3, teams of two to three students will have 30 minutes to build a gingerbread house, plus three mystery ingredients to incorporate into their creation. ...
The Chargers finished fourth out of six teams that competed in the invitational meet at Davenport University Nov. 19 through 21. The team as a whole performed well at the meet. In the 200 yard freestyle relay, the A team, made up of juniors Marie Taylor, Leah Tunney, Sydney Slepian, and sophomore Caroline Holmes finished...
While we were watching the political chaos of 2020 and early 2021 unfold, Baylor historian Robert Elder was quietly finishing his long and masterful biography of John C. Calhoun. In “Calhoun: American Heretic,” Elder makes one of America’s strangest and most controversial figures familiar without understating any of his flaws. From Calhoun’s youthful presidential dreams...
COVID-19 cases in the Hillsdale area are “the highest they have been throughout the pandemic,” said Rebecca Burns, health officer at The Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency. Yet cases on campus have remained low throughout the semester, according to Director of Health Services Brock Lutz. “We have had a lot of sick students this fall,...