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Market House to add new businesses
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Market House to add new businesses

The Market House Supermarket is Hillsdale’s one-stop-shop for everything from groceries and deli to postal services and a fitness center. Now the store owner, Brett Boyd, is looking to add another business or two.  At the end of 2019, Domino’s franchisee Ken Clawson decided it was time to retire, leaving an empty space in Market...

Lighthouse Tea seeks  conversation, understanding
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Lighthouse Tea seeks conversation, understanding

The Hillsdale College Lighthouse Club is continuing their monthly teas. Every other Friday afternoon the club meets to have open and honest discussions about various mental and emotional struggles.  For their last meeting on Friday, Feb. 7, the group gathered at the Paul House to talk about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Lighthouse President Alexis Daniels said she...

Self-defense should be part of gym class
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Self-defense should be part of gym class

Last weekend we caught a glimpse of the spring that should be coming soon. I saw dozens of people outside, going for walks and enjoying the sun that we’ve missed for so long, but as the weather gets nicer and we’re itching to get outside, I remembered something that happened last fall.  I was running...

Healthies of Hillsdale gives back to local CASA
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Healthies of Hillsdale gives back to local CASA

Sierra Cady, owner of Healthies of Hillsdale, has been involved in the Court Appointed Special Advocates program for 10 years now. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, her store donated $1 of every smoothie-tea combo purchase to the Hillsdale CASA, along with money that was put into a donation bucket.  CASA Director Heather Upton said CASA relies...