Elchert works for Celebrations LLC, a wedding, event and party supplier, in Hillsdale. She is also helping to organize the first annual Light Up Hillsdale Parade, which will take place Dec. 1. How did the idea for the first parade come about? [The] idea was talked around a couple years ago, and I’ve been involved...
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Local parish receives organ transplant
Holy Trinity Parish, Hillsdale’s Anglican church, recently acquired and refurbished a traditional pipe organ. According to Father Duane Beauchamp, the parish’s rector, the pipe organ replaced an Ellen electronic organ the church used for the past decade. The newly acquired organ was built in 1969 and installed in the Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colo....
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Hillsdale Co. lights up
Hillsdale County has one of the highest smoking rates in Michigan. A report released jointly by two national health institutes shows that from 2004 to 2010, 27 percent of adults in Hillsdale County reported currently smoking, compared with just 21 percent for all of Michigan. Of the 67 counties surveyed, just 12, including Hillsdale, had...
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Police Blotter
The following is a list of calls compiled and reported by the Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department. Hillsdale City Police Department Nov. 11 A 23-year-old Hillsdale man was arrested for driving with a suspended license. 10 percent of a $2,000 bond was posted. Nov. 9 A 53-year-old Hillsdale man was arrested for operating a vehicle...
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This week in Hillsdale History
1900 — The legendary “Grand Old Man of Hillsdale,” benefactor, professor, and theologian Ransom Dunn is laid to rest before the community, in a symbolic conclusion of the 19th century for Hillsdale College. 1914 — The night before a rival football game, a “procession” of Hillsdale students marches downtown and burns a contrived Albion College...