After taking off at 8:30 p.m., a helicopter crashed Sunday in Kenya, killing Kyle Forti, a 2012 graduate of Hillsdale College, and three other Americans. Forti and the others were flying to the Lobolo tented camp, but they did not make it far before losing contact. A search-and-rescue mission identified the wreckage hours before dawn,...
Katy Price was sworn in as the new city clerk at the Hillsdale City Council Meeting on Monday after appointment to the position by Mayor Adam Stockford and the council. Price has been working for the City as interim city clerk since November, when former City Clerk Stephen French resigned. “I’m looking forward to just...
In the fall of 2008, Kyle Forti was just like any other Hillsdale freshman: eager and jubilant, and not fully aware of the impact he would have on each person he interacted with. Like us, he attended classes such as Western Heritage and Constitution 101, in which he was an “active participant” with a...
Records sometimes seem to last forever, enduring so long they reach a near-mythical status; rarified air never to be breathed again. In Kajsa Johansson’s mind, however, 37 years was long enough. Johansson flirted with the school record in the 60 meter dash — set at 7.70 seconds by Carol Pettit in 1982 — all year,...
A proposed classical charter school in Colorado, part of Hillsdale College’s Barney Charter School Initiative, has been denied a charter application by the Boulder Valley Board of Education, based on concerns regarding school governance and religious discrimination. The Ascent Classical Academy Flatirons, according to its website, is “a proposed K-12 tuition-free charter public school,” and...