The doors of Hillsdale’s amusement park, Silos Fun Park, are finally open for business. Park co-owners Dave and Mary Cleveland ran it from 2004 to 2010, but other business ventures and family obligations influenced them to put it up for sale or lease. After being closed for nearly three and a half years, the park...
The Hillsdale City Council decided Tuesday to approve a fall, deer bow hunt, switch to Livestream for city council meeting recordings — saving the city $11,000 a year — and ended with a heated exchange between Board of Public Utilities Director Rick Rose and city council members over the sale of a piece property. The...
Dueling pianos, jazz nights, beer and wine clubs, and ethnic selections comprise a few of the changes students will see at Broad Street Downtown Market and Tavern since spring. “Our theme is that we always have something happening,” Broad Street Director of Marketing Maree Socha said. Its new Downtown Underground — a bar, lounge, and...
From eating enormous hamburgers to extremely hot wings, food challenges are commonly used by businesses as promotionals. A recent example is The Udder Side’s “Chubby Challenge.” The challenge entails eating all 38 of the restaurant’s “Cow Creations,” one ice cream drink, and one cyclone -— totaling 40 ice cream items. The Udder Side Manager Julie...
On the corner of Bacon and Howell streets sits the newest project of Hillsdale’s Ladies Beatification League. Although the 12-foot wall boasts nothing but white cinderblock, the league predicts that Hillsdale residents will make excuses to drive by 32 E. Bacon St. in a month. The wall on the west side of the building will...