The City of Hillsdale Police Department has identified three suspects from outside of the city who allegedly have been breaking into cars in Hillsdale County since October 2019. City of Hillsdale Police Detective Brad Martin has been following the break-ins throughout the fall and into the new year. “Warrants have been requested and we are...
In the past two weeks, four local schools have temporarily closed, largely due to influenza making its way through Hillsdale County. Hillsdale Hospital Infection Control Officer Randy Holland said since September 2019 there have been 520 cases of influenza B confirmed through the hospital’s laboratory, and 12 cases of influenza A. Holland said the number...
The City of Litchfield, just a 15-minute drive from Hillsdale, is adding to its city infrastructure with new pavement, a new public pool, new water lines, and a natural gas plant. Douglas Terry, Litchfield’s city manager, said the city is looking forward to each of the new projects. Litchfield secured a grant recently from Michigan’s...
Six weeks after throwing a chair through a window at his workplace, a Taco Bell employee pleaded guilty on Jan. 27 to the “attempted malicious destruction of a building” in Hillsdale County Circuit Court. Dakota Joblinski, a 22-year-old manager at the store, was arrested shortly after trashing the Taco Bell on Carleton Road where he...
The weather outside was cold and wet, but inside Jamie’s Barbershop it was warm and cozy. The wood-paneled walls and landscape mural were reminiscent of the Brady Bunch house, or the Andy Griffith show, which was the inspiration for the shop’s remodeling in the 1970s. “I don’t know if I would ever change it,” the...