Category: City News

That place every Hillsdale College student recognizes but doesn’t really know — Silos Fun Park — is for sale. The self-acclaimed “Happiest Place in Hillsdale” opened in the summer of 2004, replete with two go-kart tracks, a putt-putt course, bumper boats, a cafe and arcade, batting cages, and a lighted golf driving range, and has...

Will a Democrat represent Hillsdale? Pam Byrnes thinks so. In July, Byrnes announced her campaign to unseat Tim Walberg, the current representative for Michigan’s seventh congressional district, which includes Hillsdale County. At a meet-and-greet held in Checker Records in Hillsdale on Sunday afternoon, she made her case to a group of local voters. “I’m very,...

Today, the reminisce of the Paul Revere School, built in 1886, still sits on the corner of N. West Street and Fayette. It served as a school for Hillsdale’s second ward until 1939, when the school closed after the Joseph Mauck Elementary School opened. In 1940, Hillsdale College purchased the former school for $2,000 to...

While some Hillsdale businesses, like Oakley Riverside Deli and Party Store, anticipate the return of Hillsdale College students to end their July slumps, many others barely notice the additional 1,400 residents. “We love September when students come back,” Jilly Beans Owner Jill Nicols said. “I can’t tell you the exat impact, but it’s definitely significant.”...

On Aug. 23, Current Office Solutions hosted the second annual Stuff the Bus cookout – an afternoon to celebrate filling a school bus with supplies for Hillsdale County schools. “We filled every seat in the bus and then we went out and purchased about $4,000 in supplies with all the monetary donations that we got,”...