The former Klein Tools Factory in downtown Jonesville will transform into storefronts, in an agreement the Jonesville City Council approved on March 16. “There is a huge opportunity there for additional retail and other commercial uses to support our downtown,” Jonesville City Manager Jeff Gray said. Under the agreement DH Roberts Construction will purchase the...
Chef Ezra Bertakis is bringing years of culinary experience, a passion for quality sushi, and homegrown organic produce to Hillsdale. Originally from Hillsdale, Bertakis worked under Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto in New York after training at the Florida Culinary Institute. After moving back to Michigan in 2011, Bertakis ran several restaurants in Detroit as executive...
We can finally settle once and for all, through a battle of the bands, whether or not Ohio is as cool as Ohioans say it is. In NBC’s “American Song Contest,” 50 U.S. states, 5 territories, and the nation’s capital will each send one Grammy-level delegate to perform a new, original song. The contest is...
Panelists discussed the joys and challenges of one of the most exhausting, important, and rewarding jobs in their eyes, teaching, during a classical education information lunch on March 28th. “It’s just such an exciting thing to do as a teacher, to come alongside. I almost feel like telling parents ‘I got your back.” To come...
For Hillsdale Union soldiers riding the Sultana, a steamship headed for Cairo, Illinois, the agonies of the Civil war seemed to be over — that is, until the Sultana exploded. On April 24, 1865, over 2,200 Union soldiers, including the Hillsdale County 18th Michigan Infantry, boarded the Sultana after having been released as prisoners of...