The board of Jonesville’s Grosvenor House Museum is seeking $200,000 to restore and renovate the historic house. The Grosvenor House was built in 1874 by Elijah E. Myers, the same architect who designed Michigan’s state capitol building. Over the years, however, the house has fallen into disrepair, board member Ann Johnson said. Johnson said the...
Cadet 2nd Lt. Olivia Tritchka-Stuchell and the Civil Air Patrol Hillsdale Composite Squadron are training to perform a color guard at community events. “There are quite a shocking shortage of people who can present colors,” Olivia’s mother and Deputy Commander of the Hillsdale Composite Squadron Heather Tritchka-Stuchell said. “The closest Civil Air Patrol group is...
The Michigan Department of Transportation gave Hillsdale County $2.6 million in funding for various road projects in 2020. Funding from MDOT, which was announced last fall, will go toward several portions of M-49 and M-99. According to Kelby Wallace, manager at MDOT’s Jackson Transportation Service Center, his office has not set a construction schedule yet....
The Hillsdale County Conservation Club will hold its 60th annual Tip-Up Festival, featuring euchre tournaments, a fishing contest, coyote and squirrel hunting contests, and music by the DJ “Sound Generator.” The Tip-Up Festival will begin on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. with a euchre tournament. The fishing contest and coyote contest both begin on Jan....
The City of Hillsdale may not rank among the top towns in Michigan in terms of its household income, but it is still considered a “strong town,” according to the Strong Towns Strength Test. The city’s current conditions meet six of the test’s 10 standards, which were laid out in the form of 10 “yes”...