Scrolling through Elise Clines’ online art business is like walking through a candy store of pretty watercolor designs, printed on everything from home decor to notebooks to outerwear. Her designs tend to be chic and feminine — but her most popular item? A popsicle-patterned men’s T-shirt. “A guy named Omar from Mexico is currently...
A deer found in Hillsdale County last month tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a disease carried by mosquitoes that’s particularly threatening for horses. “It’s not terribly frequent, but it does occur and is something we know is a possibility in ruminant populations,” said Rebecca Burns, health officer at the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Community Health Agency....
Your mother may have told you that a half-truth is a lie, but she wasn’t a professional fact checker. At the Washington Post, fact checkers slap statements with up to four Pinocchios, and fact-checking site PolitiFact has a “Truth-O-Meter” with six shades of true and false — including, heaven forbid, “Pants on Fire.” Fact checkers...
The City of Hillsdale is so anxious for innovation, it can’t pause for a comma. To complement a new logo, the city is considering a few taglines, including: “Where Tradition, Education and Innovation Thrive.” But if Hillsdale really stands by those values, it should insert the Oxford comma after “education.” The Oxford (or serial) comma...
Walk into the Hillsdale McDonalds, and you’ll be greeted by a warm smile from employee Pam Allion and the bright LED glow of what McDonald’s calls the “Experience of the Future”: four kiosks with touch screens that allow customers to order food without speaking to an employee behind the counter. After four weeks of renovations...