Four bands—Luxury Flux, Trash Cats, Big Bad Wolf, and Muskin—competed for a grand prize of $1,000 in the third round of Broad Street’s annual Battle of the Bands. For the first time, the County Fair stepped in to raise the stakes, offering the winner a stage at the Hillsdale County Fair. Kory Osmun, co-founder of...
Gregory Lawrence Kuhn, 28, was arrested in late August on a felony warrant for distributing sexually explicit verbal or visual material to a minor. According to Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Megan Stiverson, the material distributed was nude photographs considered harmful in nature, which were distributed to a 16-year-old girl. Stiverson was not aware of the...
Bill Zeiser, a 4th year PhD student enrolled at Hillsdale’s Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, was elected earlier this month to Hillsdale’s City Council. Zeiser was elected as a representative of Hillsdale’s Ward III in a close race between candidate Julian Kast and himself. With only 254 ballots cast, Zeiser beat Kast by a...
The people of Hillsdale are not ready for the town to become the “Home of Hillsdale College.” This became evident at a City Council meeting on Sept. 6, during which several citizens voiced their concerns about the council’s recent decision to replace the motto on all of Hillsdale’s welcome signs, changing “It’s the people” to...
Last month, the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department took Hillsdale resident Blue Danielle Lucio, 20, into custody for harboring a fugitive, resisting arrest, and lying to an officer. According to a police report, Capt. Carl Albright responded to a distressed caller, who claimed she had been the victim of an assault on Aug. 23, 2016. The...