With warmer temperatures moving in, students gravitate towards Baw Beese Lake, located 3.8 miles from campus, in search of a safe haven from campus. The one problem: no one knows if the water is safe, since the water has not been tested at the state level within the past decade. Jeffrey Surfus, an environmental...
After many years of teaching, playing music, and evangelizing in Hillsdale, Robert “Bob” L. Taylor died at home on March 27 from a heart attack after a brief illness, less than a month away from turning 73. “I used to say he was like a happy puppy — he was always cheerful, always had a...
When Tami Brackman created a Facebook page to spread awareness about domestic violence, she named it Seed of Hope. At the time, she had no idea the seed would be strawberry popcorn. “My kids and I had been in a domestic violence situation for a long time, and I had left, and went back,...
It may be the first event of its kind in Hillsdale County, but the upcoming beer and wine festival is slated to be the most popular around. The event, titled “The Most Popular Beer and Wine Festival on Earth,” will be held on May 6 at the Hillsdale County Fairgrounds in the Merchants building....
Faith Van Havel will trade her Hillsdale Academy uniform skirt for a blue suit when she begins her freshman year of college this August as a cadet at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Van Havel achieved an historic first for Hillsdale Academy by becoming their first graduate to attend...