Category: City News

Students and local residents celebrated a new Halloween tradition by assembling at Jonesville’s historic Grosvenor House for its first annual night of Halloween-themed readings. “We want to expand the number of events we hold in the house,” Hillsdale College Professor of Physics and Grosvenor House board member Paul Hosmer said. “Victorian Christmas is currently our...

Hillsdale teens are catching bullies on live footage. YOUTH, Young Opportunities Unlimited Throughout Hillsdale, a body of middle and high school representatives from Hillsdale County schools, organized an anti-bullying video contest in response to a survey they took of Hillsdale County students at the beginning of the fall semester. Forty three percent of responses said...

Local business owners and Hillsdale alumni combined forces to celebrate a “girl’s night out” shopping day at Maggie Anne’s Boutique in downtown Hillsdale to raise breast cancer awareness on Oct. 10. Hillsdale College alumna Patti Bailey ’87, owner of Maggie Anne’s, and alumna Stacey Murdock-Webster ’92, Stella & Dot fashion stylist and director of research...

John Bristle stumbled upon the skeletal remains of a mammoth while tilling his farm on Sept. 28. After calling the University of Michigan’s paleontology department, staff from the university excavated the bones and are now studying them to learn more about the ancient environment of mid-central Michigan. Daniel Fisher, director of the University of Michigan...

Hillsdale’s fiber optics network, which began in November of last year with a deal between private provider ACD.net and the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities, is two weeks away from completion. The fiber has been laid by ACD.net and when testing is done the system will be ready for Hillsdale customers. “[The network] is great...