Here’s an idea for your next break: fly to a new city for the day. My sister Chloe and I did this on Monday. We left Chicago at 6 a.m. and returned at 11 p.m., visiting Boston in between. It’s possible to see a lot of a city in 12 well-planned hours. We visited Paul...
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,...
“Mr. Wilson, you may not enter the jetway until the mask is over your nose.” These snarky words greeted me on my recent Southwest flight to Denver, Colorado. A middle-aged woman glared at me with the confidence of a third-grade line leader. I grudgingly moved my mask one inch higher on my face and saved...
For the past eight days, hundreds of thousands of viewers have tuned in to livestreams of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The Illinois resident, who was 17 years old when he was arrested, is accused of murdering two rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 during the riots that swept the country in the months after...
Residents and students piled into airplanes and helicopters at the airport this weekend to get a unique bird’s-eye view of Hillsdale. Over 1,000 people attended the Hillsdale Municipal Airport’s sixth annual Patriot Day Fly-In event Sunday, according to Hillsdale Municipal Airport Manager Ginger Moore. The event is held around Sept. 11 each year to...