St. Augustine can teach Hillsdale students many lessons on how to live — and how not to live. College students seeking boundaries in their Hillsdating relationship can empathize with Augustine when he prays, “Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.” Or, when they steal fruit from Saga, students can relate to Augustine stealing pears for...
Author: Elizabeth Crawford (Elizabeth Crawford)
Local artist invites the community to view his work, eat refreshments
Hillsdale residents are invited to look at art and drink wine. Local artist John Castellese will display 20 pieces of representational landscape artwork from 12 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 7 at Studio 42, located in the same building as Rough Draft. The event, hosted by ArtWorks of Hillsdale County, will include a free wine...
Politics department offers new politics of health class
Poor diet costs Americans trillions in medical bills. Courtesy | Facebook While Associate Professor of Politics Kevin Slack ate Cheez-Its and drank Kool-Aid for breakfast as a kid, he doesn’t recommend students in his new class follow his example. The new class, called the Politics of Health, introduces students to health issues and how government...
Opinion: If you want to be healthy, stop eating seed oils
Seed oils have been marketed as hearth-healthy since the 1960s. Courtesy︱Twitter With soaring obesity rates, spikes in allergies, and increasing rates of heart disease, it’s time for Americans to reclaim their health and stop consuming seed oils. Seed oils, like canola, corn, safflower, soy, grapeseed, rice bran, and cottonseed oils, are high in polyunsaturated fats,...
Remembering Prestley Blake’s recipe for success
Stewart Prestley Blake’s rules for life were simple: don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t bed hop, work hard, and have dessert with every meal. While his stepdaughter Susan Abello doesn’t recommend following Blake’s eating habits, she attributes his success as a father, friend, business owner, and philanthropist to these core principles. Blake, who died in 2021...




