As Share the Warmth of Hillsdale County opens for the season, local businesses and churches are gathering to help support the shelter. “We couldn’t do it without the community, they are wonderful,” said Penny Myers, the warming center’s executive director. “We are very thankful and grateful.” Myers said it took lots of work to gain...
DMCI Broadband, a wireless internet provider, will receive a $3.1 million grant and a $3.1 million loan to increase fiber-optic internet in Hillsdale and Branch counties. “Extending broadband out to rural areas of Michigan and the nation enhances educational opportunities and also helps to ensure that rural residents have access to needed telemedicine,” said...
Hillsdale’s stray animal problem can be boiled down to one main problem: funding. According to local animal shelter workers, the problem with strays has increased exponentially in the past few years due to the economy. “At least for dogs, the economy tanks, and the next thing you know, people can’t feed their pets,” Director...
Conservative activists and Republican candidates for state office rallied at Fellowship Baptist Church in Clarklake on Oct. 26. The event, billed as the sixth stop on Stand Up Michigan’s bus tour of the state, brought together conservatives from Hillsdale, Lenawee, and Jackson counties. Jon Smith, secretary of the Hillsdale County Republican Party’s “America First” group,...
When Hillsdale Community Thrift Executive Director Missy Desjardin discovered one of Domestic Harmony’s bikes was missing, she posted an ad for bike donations on her store’s Facebook account and received the bikes and a bag of cycling gear from people in the community. “Of course, the bikes are used, but the thought of the...