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Last week’s recent warm weather in Michigan brought an abundance of blossoms to Hills- dale College campus.

Cases of head lice in Hillsdale County increased steadily over the last three years after dropping dramatically between 2008 and 2009. From 2009 to 2010, the number of head lice incidences increased by 38 percent. And from 2009 to 2010, cases increased by 25 percent.

Tornado season arrived early this spring. Director of Hillsdale Security and Emergency Management Chris Martini sent a campus-wide email at 4:39 p.m. on March 12, officially marking Hillsdale College’s first tornado watch of the year. Nine minutes earlier, Hillsdale County officially went under its first watch of the season as well.

The Hillsdale City Council approved an industrial facilities tax for Precision Gage, Inc. at the March 5 council meeting.

Senior Trevor Anderson won first place in Hillsdale College’s annual Edward Everett Oratory Contest. This year’s prompt was “Social networks: Recreating the oundaries between public and private spheres.” Anderson said he almost did not enter the contest this year because of his class workload, and at one point, he almost gave up writing. He kept it up when his girlfriend...