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Local brewery aims to raise $200k for fall opening
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Local brewery aims to raise $200k for fall opening

After a final winter of preparation, the Ramshackle Brewing Company is pushing a final fundraising kick with a plan to open their Jonesville brewery in the fall. Brewery co-owners Joe Kesselring, Zack Bigelow, and Jessy Bigelow, who have turned heads with their unorthodox crowdfunding strategy, have set a goal of raising half of their $200,000...

Students make a buck with Baum cutting boards
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Students make a buck with Baum cutting boards

Students can always appreciate a little extra money. For some, that money could be earned through starting a small business. The heart of the project is the pair’s conviction that people want products that are, as Putrich puts it, “as much aesthetic as they are functional.” “People are into things that are green, things that...

A conversation with Pulliam Fellows Mark and Mollie Hemingway
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A conversation with Pulliam Fellows Mark and Mollie Hemingway

Mark and Mollie Hemingway are one of America’s premier journalistic power couples. Mark is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, while Mollie is a senior editor at The Federalist, which she co-founded. The Hemingways live in Washington, D.C., and have two children. How did each of you first get involved in journalism? Mark: It...

Senior coaches Academy’s Women’s JV basketball team
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Senior coaches Academy’s Women’s JV basketball team

Senior Betsy Thistleton has always been more of a volleyball aficionado. But it’s hard to grow up with eight brothers without picking up some basketball too. So when Mike Roberts, the athletic director at Hillsdale Academy, offered her a job coaching the junior varsity girls’ basketball team last fall, she didn’t hesitate to accept. “It...