The new owners of Hillsdale’s State Street Market began renovating and expanding the existing store this last year. Hillsdale College Associate Professor of Art Anthony Frudakis and his wife, Vivian, recently purchased the market, located at 146 State St., with hopes of expanding it into a small neighborhood market complete with a fresh deli and...
Desiree Jordan Sherman, 21, accepted a plea bargain of no contest to one count of assault and battery in Hillsdale County Circuit Court on Nov. 25. The prosecutor agreed to drop Sherman’s four other charges of assault with intent to commit murder, resisting and obstructing, interfering with electronic communications, and assault and battery of a...
Five years after going into effect, the Hillsdale City ordinance requiring inspection of rental property is going to be enforced. The City Planning Commission discussed plans to enforce the existing property use and occupancy ordinance citing the blight as one motivator to uphold the inspection requirement at its Nov. 19 meeting. Now when the city...
The Hillsdale County Sheriff’s department arrested Victor Jason Owens, 59, of Osseo, Mich., Monday after a dispute with a neighbor. Owens was arraigned in the Hillsdale County District Court on charges of first degree home invasion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. His bond is set at $5,000 with...
Hillsdale’s beloved Lake Baw Beese derived its name from Potawatomi Indian chieftain Baw Beese, whose tribe of about 150 members settled on the banks of the lake sometime in the first quarter of the 19th century. While Baw Beese and his tribe roamed as whim, game, and season led them, present-day Hillsdale County and the...