“I’ve always wanted to be a graduate of Hillsdale,” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said as he received an honorary degree from Hillsdale College. On April 15, President of Hillsdale College Larry P. Arnn and Provost David Whalen presented McConnell with an honorary doctorate degree in public service. Before the degree was presented...
Art galleries around the nation are being forced to close their doors in epidemic numbers. After 11 years in Hillsdale County, Jonesville’s Gallery 49 closed on March 30. Rhonda Foster, president of Gallery 49 Artists’ Co-op, said a lack of funding and artists forced them to close their physical location. “We always had just barely...
In the fall of 1998, a small rural American town was changed forever as the community faced the reality of a once-distant hatred hitting too close to their home of Laramie, Wyoming. The people of Hillsdale County were introduced to the community of rural Wyoming as the “The Laramie Project,” a three-act play, visited Jonesville’s...
Taste the Mediterranean this Saturday and help support a trip to Italy and Greece. Hillsdale Academy will host their annual Mediterranean Feast fundraiser on Saturday to help support its junior and senior classes’ trip to Italy and Greece. Dinner will be served from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. with a silent auction to follow, sponsored...
On Jan. 3 Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan’s 13th congressional district, was sworn into the 116th session of U.S. Congress. The same day that Tlaib was sworn into office, she told a group of her supporters, regarding President Donald Trump, “we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf*****.” Tlaib’s comments...