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Buzz about bands: high school Hornets join college Chargers for game-day performance
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Buzz about bands: high school Hornets join college Chargers for game-day performance

It wasn’t just the thunder of the Chargers coming from the stands during the Hillsdale College football team’s big win — there were Hornets buzzing as well. The Hillsdale High School Hornets marching band joined Hillsdale College Pep Band at Frank “Muddy” Waters Stadium during the Chargers game against the Michigan Tech Huskies last Saturday...

Foreign language majors don’t need to be fluent at graduation
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Foreign language majors don’t need to be fluent at graduation

Over the last four years, I have often been forced to contend with two comments concerning my college majors. After I reveal that I study French and English, people inevitably make some dismissive comment about how I will go into teaching and then they ask if I am fluent in French.  Although the first supposition...

Meet the candidates: Sessions runs for mayor
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Meet the candidates: Sessions runs for mayor

When the Fasco DC Motors plant closed its operation in the Hillsdale Industrial Complex in 2003 to relocate to Mexico, Scott Sessions lost his job and saw that the city needed a better plan for economic growth. Though he landed back on his feet after getting an associates degree from Jackson College and becoming the...

Top three places to camp in lower Michigan
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Top three places to camp in lower Michigan

After settling into campus for the school year, students may want to run for the hills as professors assign the first round of papers and projects. And for the last couple weekends of summer, they should. Here are the three best spots for outdoor adventure and camping in Michigan’s lower peninsula. Pinckney State Recreation Area...