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Holy Moses   Q: How and when did your band become what it is today? Tim Allen: It all started when Ian came up and complimented my guitar playing at CHP my freshman year. He said, “You’re good; we should be bros.” I said, “Okay. But only if we rock so hard.” He said, “Oh. We will, young squire, we...

In the evening hours of the 1920s, at a small house on Griswold Street, one man was changing the world. When Edward “Doc” Smith came to Hillsdale, Michigan in 1920, space was on his mind. Smith arrived in Hillsdale in the spring of that year, after earning two degrees from the University of Idaho. He spent nearly two decades working...

Nearly 50 people gathered on April 7 for the Lighthouse club’s “Behind the Stigma: Substance Abuse and Addiction” event. Three students told their stories of dealing with addiction, and Director of Health Services Brock Lutz gave the closing talk. Junior Ryan Potrykus shared about how, when he was younger, his mother was addicted to opiates, drugs that commonly come in...

Your phone beeps, and you pull up short to survey your surroundings. To the untrained eye, there’s nothing extraordinary about the alley you’re in, unassumingly located behind a small ice cream shop. You know better: you’ve followed the trail, and the object you’re seeking is close. After a few minutes of searching, you grin as you suddenly spy a small...

Walking through the abandoned screen door factory on Carleton Road — that old brick giant sitting next to Family Video — is about as close as you can get to meeting the people who lived, worked, spoke, and breathed in Hillsdale 150 years ago. You walk the same floorboards they walked, you touch the same brick they touched, you open...