Hillsdale Municipal Airport has a new means of keeping track of fuel funding. Control of the fuel changed hands in October 2017 when the city took over the fuel from a private company, Patriot Aviation. Patriot Aviation acted as a fixed base operator, or FBO. According to Airport Director Ginger Moore, FBOs are private...
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Mill Pond dam set to be removed due to old age
The City of Hillsdale is looking to remove the Mill Pond dam. The Department of Public Services had recent intentions of placing a plastic liner inside the Mill Pond dam, because the corrugated metal pipe that helps waterflow through the dam was deteriorating. As excavation began, it was determined that the metal pipe...
Alpha Rho Tau brings blackout poetry to Rough Draft
Scrolling through Twitter in the middle of January, Joseph Garnjobst, professor of classics, encountered blackout poetry — a form of poetry composed by selecting words on a page from a book or printed article and blacking out all the extra words, creating a poem. The next day, he picked up an old newspaper sitting...
Hillsdale gets a Lyft
Hillsdale Daily News reporter Corey Murray is the City of Hillsdale’s first licensed Lyft driver — but he has yet to pick up a local rider. For now, Murray has been driving several nights out of the week for Uber and Lyft, two popular ride-sharing companies, in the more urban city of Ann Arbor....
City buys more safety gear to protect law enforcement from active shooter threats
In response to the recent shootings across the country, the Hillsdale Police Department will purchase more safety equipment for its officers. Upgrades include body armor for defense against active shooter situations. “The equipment we are considering is additional safety equipment for the officer,” Chief of Police Scott Hephner said in an email. “This decision...



