Nesbitt received the college’s Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award in 2027. Courtesy | Douglas Coon Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt ’01 is the first Republican to enter the contest The first Republican to jump into the 2026 race for Michigan governor heard about Hillsdale College while doing farm chores in eighth grade. “I was...
The city council voted to hold a special mayoral election in August. Courtesy | Robyn Beck The city council voted to hold an August special election for mayor even as Acting Mayor Joshua Paladino said the move likely breaks the city charter’s rules for filling vacancies. “There is no possible interpretation where this is a...
Acting Mayor Joshua Paladino plans to run. Courtesy | Robyn Beck The city council will likely vote next week to hold a special election for mayor in August, and Acting Mayor Joshua Paladino told The Collegian he will run. The move would be another consequence of former mayor Adam Stockford’s resignation in December. When the...
Joshua Paladino and his family. Courtesy | Facebook As Joshua Paladino begins his two years as acting mayor of Hillsdale, he said his “number one” priority is to stop adding fluoride in the city’s water. “I want my water to contain water,” Paladino told The Collegian in an interview this week. The vast majority of...
Berntson and Ritchie throw a line in for some fish. Thomas McKenna | COLLEGIAN “Hey you — yeah, you — come up here!” That’s senior Maria Ritchie shouting down to the dark sidewalk from the string light-wrapped porch of Graceland, an off-campus house on Manning Street. Who is she shouting at? She doesn’t know....