The Hillsdale Business Association will sponsor Hillsdale’s first Art Around Town event today, hoping to attract more residents and college students to visit the downtown area and patronize local businesses. The HBA hopes to bring in around 300 people to see downtown Hillsdale and experience it’s business community through a local advertising campaign that is...
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Best of Hillsdale- Best Burger
Lane 17, Hillsdale Hillsdale’s best burger is as humble as the restaurant it resides in. Located inside Hillsdale Lanes bowling alley, Lane 17 is a modest sports pub serving traditional bar food with American beers on tap. While the decor is simple — walls filled with beer signs and the occasional flat screen television —...
Best of Hillsdale- Best Dinner Date
Laughlin’s Slice of Spice, Spring Arbor This little pizza and sub restaraunt is our number one dinner date place. It’s a beautiful 30 minute drive to Spring Arbor, it is far enough to get away, but still manageable. Laughlin’s specialty is wood-fired, thin crust brick oven pizza, but they also offer subs, wraps, and salads,...
Best of Hillsdale- Best Hidden Gem
Alternaprint Screen Printing & Comic Shop, Hillsdale Not only does the Alternaprint Screen Printing & Comic Shop advertise a top-notch selection of comic books and graphic novels, the shop also regularly screens indie films, which are open to the public, and custom prints T-shirts. Owners Andrew and Katie Gibbs transferred their comic shop business from...
Michigan named ‘high intensity drug trafficking area,’ Walberg addresses heroin epidemic
Drug overdoses are the No. 1 cause of injury-related deaths in the state of Michigan. Hillsdale County alone has seen four deaths due to heroin over the past year, and dozens of overdoses requiring medical attention, according to the Hillsdale Office of the Prosecuting Attorney. Earlier this month, the Office of National Drug Control Policy...

