Public parking in downtown Hillsdale is at a premium, after the January opening of the Hillsdale Brewing Company. Customers are encouraged to use the lots near the post office and next to the Great Wall Chinese restaurant, despite the new business’s proximity to two private lots and extra space near the railroad tracks on Hillsdale...
Until recently, gun control advocates had not realized they had a powerful weapon in their arsenals: fearless, outspoken teens. The past weekend’s March for Our Lives demonstrated that the gun control movement wields the sort of power Mothers Against Drunk Driving leveraged against the drinking age in the 1980s. Emotions compel reason. Teenagers demanding their...
Tyler Blanski ’06 came to Hillsdale wanting to be a saint; he just didn’t know it yet. These were danger days, when the strains of Minnesota sweet-strumming evangelicalism clashing with the lo-fi screeches of Beck’s “The New Pollution” rattled around inside his head. Both were pulling him toward Christ, but he did not know how....
Pittsford Middle/High School went into a hard lock down when school officials found a handgun in a 13-year-old male student’s bag at 1:43 p.m. on March 14. Police were notified and worked alongside the school to restrain the student, according to the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office. “Some students came to us and said that...
Following an unnamed collector’s offer to sell a 1931 Seagrave fire truck to the Hillsdale County Historical Society for a reduced price, the society is trying to raise $10,000 to bring the truck back to the city. “This truck is a very important part of Hillsdale’s history and we would like to see it...