A panel of three professors from various departments spoke at a forum on Feb. 25 about the nature and function of narrative in life: the importance of both coherence and transcendence in narratives, the relationship between narrative and history, and how narrative is both necessary and insufficient to understanding life. The Lyceum, a student group...
In front of Michelle Wollet’s real estate business in downtown Hillsdale is a small Christmas tree her husband Joe built — a simple wooden frame covered with chicken wire and Christmas lights. Gloves and mittens hang from clothespins, covering the tree like ornaments. A handwritten sign reads, The Giving Tree Have One, Leave One Need...
Robert Alt, president and CEO of the Buckeye Institute, was the lead attorney in Phillips v. OSHA, the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay preventing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate from going into effect on Jan. 13. Alt spoke at Hillsdale on Feb. 16. What...
One Step Ministries and Hillsdale Justice Project, two nonprofit organizations that were denied tax exemption by the City of Hillsdale, no longer face imminent foreclosure following show cause hearings on Feb. 15, County Treasurer Stephanie Kyser said. At the hearings, Kyser agreed to give both organizations an additional year to pay off delinquent taxes or...
The number of deaths exceeded the number of births in Hillsdale County and the state of Michigan in 2020, according to data from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Hillsdale County Clerk. Declining population may have long-term impacts on the county’s economy, said Susan Smith, executive director of the Hillsdale County...