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Hillsdale gets a Lyft
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Hillsdale gets a Lyft

  Hillsdale Daily News reporter Corey Murray is the City of Hillsdale’s first licensed Lyft driver — but he has yet to pick up a local rider. For now, Murray has been driving several nights out of the week for Uber and Lyft, two popular ride-sharing companies, in the more urban city of Ann Arbor....

City begins construction on Garden, Mead, Vine Street
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City begins construction on Garden, Mead, Vine Street

  Repairs began on Garden, Mead, and Vine streets Wednesday morning, as construction crews stripped away the old asphalt blacktop from the roads. The City of Hillsdale has closed these roads until the conclusion of the repairs. Hillsdale resident Dennis Wainscott recorded beginning of the project on a Facebook Live video. “This is the smoothest...

Pope Francis still has God on his side
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Pope Francis still has God on his side

As the Francis papacy wanes, it has become fashionable — especially among well-to-do Catholics — to express discontent at even the thought of the current pope futzing around in the Vatican.  What began in 2013 as a revolution of love within the Roman Catholic Church (dubbed by the media as “The Francis Effect”) has now...

Alumni release album, ‘Lost Mary’
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Alumni release album, ‘Lost Mary’

Somewhere in early April of my freshman year, I found myself attending the 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Anthony’s nearly every weekend. This was not because I loved the semi-Latin liturgy. I had found a place to drink, sing, and smoke indoors on late Saturday nights. Most current Hillsdale students are too young to...