The Palace Cafe is closing its doors indefinitely on Thursday at 2 p.m., according to business owner Leslie Meredith. A Monday-morning Facebook post announcing the closure sparked dismayed responses from the landmark diner’s patrons. Larry Houck, who owns the cafe’s equipment and its portion of the Howell Street building, said the business is closing and...
The media flared up over reports last week that Karen Pence, wife of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, is now teaching at a Christian school that upholds traditional biblical views of sexuality and marriage. Before long, #ExposeChristianSchools became a trending hashtag on Twitter. The Covington Catholic episode last weekend — in which the media...
The federal government shutdown has closed part of the United States Department of Agriculture office in Hillsdale County — cutting farmers off from financial and administrative services that will prove vital to decision making in the coming weeks. “It makes us a lot more uncertain on what we’re doing,” said Scott Welden, a grain farmer...
Use of recreational marijuana becomes legal for adults over 21 years old in Michigan on Thursday, but at Hillsdale College, drug policy remains the same: Students and employees of the college may not use or possess marijuana. The college forbids marijuana because there is “strong evidence that it is bad for one and hurts one’s...
Six years ago, Sacred Heart Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was nearly 110 years old and on the verge of shutting down. Now, it’s quadrupled in size and is the only classical Catholic school in the Grand Rapids diocese — thanks in large part to the work of Hillsdale graduate Zach Good ‘08, the academy’s...