Joseph W. Mauck Elementary School at 113 E. Fayette St. is just one of several vacant buildings in the City of Hillsdale that are being repurposed and filled. Hillsdale College bought Mauck Elementary School for $390,000 on June 1, and the college plans to begin using the building for various purposes while it discerns...
When Lorie Nichols’ phone rings, she knows that answering it might put a life in her hands. Sometimes a call comes in the middle of the night, a last grasp at life from a suicidal person who listens to a deeper instinct, or a desperate plea for assistance from the person’s friend. A member...
Volume One Bookstore will reopen as Volume 2 Bookstore next week. Long-time store owner Richard Wunsch retired at 78 years- old and transferred ownership to Daniel Brown, Emily Wunsch, Sedrich Brown, and Tina Sanchez, who formed an LLC. The new owners are remodeling the store to make it into a community center and bookstore....
In honor of national child abuse prevention month, the sheriff’s department and the Hillsdale branch of Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness held a rally at noon Wednesday on the courthouse lawn. Surrounded by the blue pinwheels that are the symbols of the movement, speakers from law enforcement, the prosecutor’s office, and around 20 community...
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...