Each within 30 miles of Hillsdale, two apple orchards provide the perfect fall fix of homemade apple cider, fresh from their own orchards. Meckley’s Flavor Fruit Farm sits 20 miles outside Hillsdale and offers a plethora of Fall activities. From September through October, each weekend features a fall festival of wagon rides, a corn maze,...
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Bands battle for spot at Hillsdale County Fair
Four bands—Luxury Flux, Trash Cats, Big Bad Wolf, and Muskin—competed for a grand prize of $1,000 in the third round of Broad Street’s annual Battle of the Bands. For the first time, the County Fair stepped in to raise the stakes, offering the winner a stage at the Hillsdale County Fair. Kory Osmun, co-founder of...
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Reaching new GOALs
The GOAL Program, a student-run volunteer organization, introduces High Rise Friends and Hillsdale Youth Mentoring. High Rise Friends is looking for volunteers to spend time with the elderly, while Hillsdale Youth Mentoring is searching out students who want to help provide stability for struggling students. Junior Monicah Wanjiru is starting a program at Hillsdale High...
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Michigan named ‘high intensity drug trafficking area,’ Walberg addresses heroin epidemic
Drug overdoses are the No. 1 cause of injury-related deaths in the state of Michigan. Hillsdale County alone has seen four deaths due to heroin over the past year, and dozens of overdoses requiring medical attention, according to the Hillsdale Office of the Prosecuting Attorney. Earlier this month, the Office of National Drug Control Policy...
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County GOP chair chosen as delegate
Hillsdale County GOP Chairman Glenn Frobel will be a member of the Michigan delegation to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, this July. Frobel, who supports Donald Trump, said that it’s impossible to predict what will happen. “I’ll just take it a day at a time, I guess,” Frobel said. “I’m going to be...