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County weighs how to help lost dogs when contract expires
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County weighs how to help lost dogs when contract expires

A dog at the Humane Society of Branch County waits to be adopted. Olivia Pero | Collegian Hillsdale County will have to manage its own lost and stray dogs in two years, when a contract with Branch County comes to an end, according to Branch County Animal Control Officer Ernest Baker.  When the old Branch...

Students visit Holy Land with Passages
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Students visit Holy Land with Passages

Hillsdale students visited Masada during the Passages trip. Courtesy | Michael Murray Seven Hillsdale students spent nine days of their winter break in Israel with Passages, visiting Capernaum, Jerusalem, and Nazareth. They traveled with students from Patrick Henry College and some students from Kansas City University and Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine. The group was...

Students broadcast live election coverage from Searle Center
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Students broadcast live election coverage from Searle Center

Junior Quinn Delamater and sophomore Ariel McDowell (right to left) announce election results on air. Courtesy | Olivia Pero Every time a state turned red, attendees in the Searle Center erupted into applause as radio students live-broadcasted election results on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. Students interviewed guests by phone and in person, including White...

Opera Workshop performs ‘Highlights in Harmony’
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Opera Workshop performs ‘Highlights in Harmony’

Vocal students performed scenes from operettas, operas, and plays in the eighth annual Opera Workshop Oct. 25 and 26. “Each night, we sang to a full house and were rewarded with a standing ovation,” said Emily Douglass, co-director of the opera workshop and voice coordinator, opera director, and artist-teacher of music. “This warm response is...

Populism must serve Constitutional ideals, Heritage president says
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Populism must serve Constitutional ideals, Heritage president says

Kevin Roberts, the president of The Heritage Foundation, discusses America’s founding ideals in Drummond lecture. Courtesy | Olivia Pero “I’m Kevin Roberts from Project 2025, and I’m here to help,” the president of The Heritage Foundation said as he opened his speech for the Drummond Lectures in Christ Chapel series Oct. 23. The Left has...