Category: City News

Parallel parking is now available only on the east side of Union Street instead of the west side, thanks to a traffic control order approved by the Hillsdale City Council during its Monday meeting. The order affects the portion of Union Street located between Barber Drive and College Street, which gives access to several local...

The Hillsdale City Council weighed in on Mayor Scott Sessions’ proposition to appoint interim city clerk Michelle Loren as the new, full-time clerk after cancelling the proposition in a 5-2 vote at its Nov.2 meeting. The council is now advertising the full-time clerk position until the end of November, when it will review applicants and...

Nearly 99 percent of Hillsdale High School seniors completed college applications during the Michigan College Application Week, which ran Oct. 26 through Oct. 30. Many of them may be the first in their family’s history to attend college. “Of the 86 seniors who applied, 30 are the first persons in their family to try to...

Local community rallied around Reading High School Rangers marching band and vaulted it to fourth place in MLive’s statewide “Top 10 Coolest Marching Bands” contest. “We finished in fourth place with more than 86,000 votes, which for us, I mean, I never would have imagined that,” said Josh Sholler, Director of Bands and Choir at...

As part of ongoing renovations to transform the Book, Art, and Spiritual Center of Hillsdale into a music ven- ue and community center, BASCH will host a potluck Tuesday at 5 p.m. to discuss options for the bookstore’s future development. The potluck will also decide whether to limit the store’s hours to Tuesdays 10 a.m....