A foreboding irony settled in the classroom as Professor of English Dwight Lindley read from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Binsey Poplars,” the morning workers cleared trees on the quad for chapel construction. Outside the window of Lane Hall, one could see the last of the trees being reduced to a stump under a cloudy sky. “All...
State Sen. Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, says requiring Amish residents to register their buggies would be his last resort in preserving Hillsdale County roads and keeping drivers safe. “Registration would take things too far at this point in the process,” Shirkey said. Since February, Shirkey has met with several Amish bishops in Hillsdale County to discuss...
Christ Chapel will be the newest chapter in Hillsdale College’s long affiliation with Christianity. Provost David Whalen told The Collegian earlier this semester the college has always been Christian and the purpose of the chapel is to “make explicit what is too often implicit.” A group of Free Will Baptists established the college in 1844,...
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal could cut a large percentage of funding for Meals on Wheels in Hillsdale County, according to data from the Hillsdale County Senior Services Center and Meals on Wheels America. Hillsdale County’s Meals on Wheels program is a service of the Senior Center, and is one of 5,000 local...
Over the past two weeks, hundreds of Hillsdale County residents have taken to Facebook to “like” their favorite project for the Hillsdale County Community Foundation’s annual $2,000 grant through the Love Your Community Program The grant, awarded in April for the third year in a row, supports a project designed to help the community. Eight...