Nearly 30 people gathered in the historic Will Carleton Poorhouse Oct. 22 to celebrate the restoration and preservation of homes and barns in the surrounding area. Mary Foulke, who has been a board member of the Hillsdale County Historical Society for about 15 years, is responsible for finding the buildings and presented each of the...
Hillsdale County Community Foundation is doing all it can to encourage high school kids to go to college. The HCCF hosted over 70 colleges from Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio at their 12th annual college fair in Hillsdale College’s Searle Center. Over 300 students from across Hillsdale County attended, and the HCCF also had a booth...
In a meeting that was expected to be focused on the legalization of recreational marijuana, the Hillsdale City Council took a different turn. In their Oct. 15 meeting, council members collectively decided to remove the issue from the schedule. “Our city council doesn’t take municipal positions on state items or federal items,” Mayor Adam Stockford...
If you walk by the benches outside the weight room in the Roche Sports Complex on Monday at 4:30 p.m., there’s a good chance you’ll see sophomore Marcus Lotti and eighth grader Ashton Montez playing Polish poker or Gin rummy, discussing what they want to eat for dinner that night or the most recent song...
Elder Ethan Schmidt and Elder Micah Starita from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Jonesville organized a free family history seminar at Hillsdale’s Public Library on Oct. 2. With the assistance of Dorothy Perry, a director for family history at the same church, they assisted those who were new to genealogical searching...