A drive down Hillsdale’s most crumbling roads may no longer feel like a sudden, unsolicited stint on an old, wooden rollercoaster. Mayoral candidates current Mayor Scott Sessions and City Councilman Adam Stockford have pledged to fix Hillsdale’s disintegrating roads, but their solutions take different paths to even asphalt and patched potholes. Sessions said he...
Author: Katherine Scheu (Katie Scheu)
College prepared to help struggling students
Anxiety, depression, and stress afflict more Americans than ever before, and Hillsdale students aren’t immune from that trend, according to members of the administration and staff. A study published in April by Psychiatric Services reported that 3.4 percent of Americans described themselves as suffering serious psychological distress, while that figure never surpassed 3 percent...
Female athletes unite to promote physical and mental wellness
Anytime senior basketball player Maddie Reed swiped into the dining hall over the last three years, a sticker on the back of her student ID reminded her how many calories and macronutrients should make up her meals. “It wasn’t as helpful as you think it could be,” Reed said. These nutritional guidelines did inform her...
County arts programs may suffer under Trump budget
Two organizations in Hillsdale County may have to restructure their budgets if the cuts President Donald Trump proposed to the National Endowment of the Arts in March go into effect. The Hillsdale Arts Chorale and the Sauk Theater receive funding from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Because the grants financing these...
Opera, English essays, and the arts: Music makes the life of the mind melodious
When I sang through a series of warmup exercises with Voice Professor Missy Osmond for the first time as a freshman, I had one goal in mind: I wanted to sing like the women on Broadway, the stars who dig deep into their chests for those lusty strains of melody familiar to anyone with an...




