Joshua Paladino and his family. Courtesy | Facebook Joshua Paladino, a Hillsdale grad, said the office’s limited authority is not worth the drama Acting Mayor Joshua Paladino will not run for mayor in August. The city council voted the Hillsdale alumnus into the temporary position, officially called “mayor pro tem,” when former mayor Adam Stockford...
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Good news for the Easter Vigil
There’s good news for the hundreds who will attend St. Anthony’s Catholic Church for its Easter Vigil Mass. The service will be packed as usual this year. But new changes announced recently will add chairs to the parish hall and end the uncharitable practice of seat-saving. Rules over seats for worship may seem trivial or...
City board suggests pay raises for council
Russel Richardson is the chair of the Officers Compensation Board. Courtesy | FOX 47 News Acting Mayor Joshua Paladino said he opposes a proposal by the Officers Compensation Committee to increase the pay for the mayor and members of the city council. The Hillsdale City Council will vote April 21 on the recommendations, which would...
Democrats protest Trump, Musk at county courthouse
Protesters outside the county courthouse Saturday. Thomas McKenna | Collegian Ten demonstrators protested outside the Hillsdale County Courthouse Sunday afternoon, holding signs critical of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk at one of the city’s busiest intersections for passing cars to see. The group stood near the intersection of Broad and East Bacon streets holding...
Barron speaks on worship
Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, has nearly two million YouTube subscribers and three million followers on Facebook. Courtesy | American Magazine Believers should remember that worship is “purposefully wasteful,” Bishop Robert Barron said at a lecture in Christ Chapel March 20. “‘Why...




