Registration for Hillsdale community baseball and softball is now open for Hillsdale residents. The cost is $50 and games begin May 23 and end in mid-July, which is when t-ball and coach-pitch baseball leagues for those under the age of eight begin. Games are played at Field of Dreams. “Baseball pulls family and community together,”...
After the Hillsdale County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the decision to place “In God We Trust” decals on the Hillsdale County Sheriff Office’s vehicles in a Feb. 28 meeting, a Hillsdale resident contacted the American Civil Liberties Union. The HCSO recently placed the controversial national motto on their vehicles, leading some citizens to voice...
Hillsdale resident Penny Swan, who has only missed one city council meeting in the last three years, has plans to run for city council in Ward 4 this November. Swan said she wants citizens to feel good about local government and that, currently, residents do not feel they have a voice because the council is...
Hillsdale residents ranked Hillsdale College and Hillsdale Hospital as the greatest strengths of the city and the pervasiveness of hard drugs in the community as its most damaging threat during an assessment for Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s Rising Tide initiative on Tuesday night. The attendees also ranked the city’s lack of vocational training as both...
The Hillsdale City Council took steps to establish the city’s third Neighborhood Enterprise Zone during their Feb. 6 meeting. If adopted in April, this NEZ would offer 10-year tax abatements to 17 property-owners on West Street south of M-99 if they chose to rehabilitate their houses. A public hearing on the proposed NEZ is scheduled...