Every Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 p.m., a young violinist descends the stairs to the basement of Howard Music Hall. For 15 minutes he stands in deep concentration between his mother and his teacher, carefully holding a violin about the size of his teacher’s hand. Robert Whalen is just three years old, but he has already...
On Nov. 20, 1855, booksellers in Hillsdale announced a new up-and-coming literary hit for sale: Frederick Douglass’ “My Bondage and My Freedom.” The next day, a group of eight men signed the Articles of Association, founding the First Free Will Baptist Church of Hillsdale on College Hill – the church now known as College Baptist...
From the Howard basement to the national main stage, the Hillsdale College Department of Music connects talented students with opportunities outside the Hillsdale bubble to sharpen their abilities and compete with others in their field. Closely following his recent Hillsdale Concerto Competition win, senior Jacob Martin entered Bowling Green State University’s Double Reed Day Oboe...
On Jan. 3, 2014, the Hillsdale County Community Foundation announced the recipients of its biannual, winter grant awards. Many local nonprofits competed in a rigorous application and selection process for a portion of the foundation’s $39,618 to use for projects that are required to benefit a large number of Hillsdale County residents. “It’s helped us...
Five years after going into effect, the Hillsdale City ordinance requiring inspection of rental property is going to be enforced. The City Planning Commission discussed plans to enforce the existing property use and occupancy ordinance citing the blight as one motivator to uphold the inspection requirement at its Nov. 19 meeting. Now when the city...