As frigid winds blow in, Hillsdale and its surrounding areas bundle up to face temperatures reaching 40 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service. “This cold is pretty extreme,” Geoffrey Heidelberger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said. “These are numbers we haven’t seen in a few decades.” In efforts to provide...
A local staple of Jonesville for over two decades, Spangler’s Hilltop restaurant recently moved across town to a new location. Now situated at 601 East Chicago Rd. on the east city limits, the restaurant sits 1.5 miles from its previous location. With the move, Spangler’s has expanded its capacity for customers from 50 people to...
Hillsdale County Central Dispatch is now capable of receiving emergency Texts-to-911 when citizens are unable or it is unsafe to make a 911 voice call. Director of Hillsdale County Emergency Management Douglas Sanford said the system to receive Texts-to-911 has been live and testable since the first week of Nov. 2018, and the public was...
The City of Hillsdale Tax Increment Finance Authority is currently accepting construction bids for the Dawn Theater Rehabilitation and Blight Elimination project. They have extended the deadline until Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. “We’re just chomping at the bit now to get this project going,” Hillsdale’s TIFA consultant Mary Wolfram said. According to Wolfram,...
On Jan. 3 Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan’s 13th congressional district, was sworn into the 116th session of U.S. Congress. The same day that Tlaib was sworn into office, she told a group of her supporters, regarding President Donald Trump, “we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf*****.” Tlaib’s comments...