After more than two months working with residents and city officials, design firm Arnett Muldrow and Associates rolled out new logos, color schemes, and typeface for the city of Hillsdale as part of rebranding efforts at Monday’s city council meeting. Paid for by the state of Michigan for cities in Governor Rick Snyder’s Rising...
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Credit cards, e-checks now options for paying for city services
The city of Hillsdale has adopted a new program which will allow credit card users to pay for almost all city services with their card or electronic checks. The city council voted to approve the program, which is powered by Point & Pay LLC, an electronic billing service, at Monday’s city council meeting. The program...
Councilman Watkins suggests placing ‘It’s the people’ on water tower
The City of Hillsdale’s unofficial motto, “It’s the people” might have a home in Hillsdale after all. City Councilman Brian Watkins raised the possibility of placing the slogan on the city’s water tower at a Jan. 24 city council meeting. Watkins said he came up with this idea after looking at a recent Board of...
Despite city code requirement, more than 70 percent of BPU board, airport members live outside of city
Most of the members of the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities and the Airport Advisory Committee are not residents of the city of Hillsdale, even though residency is a requirement under the city’s municipal code. Four out of the five members of the Hillsdale BPU board of directors do not live in Hillsdale, according...
BPU conducts maintenance on sewers, hydrants to purify water
Last Thursday, the Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities trucks drove around Hillsdale College’s campus, flushing water out of fire hydrants as a part of the city’s bi-yearly effort to purify its water supply. “We’re doing this now and we’ll do it again in the spring. Flushing out fire hydrants ensures that any hardness or clogs...



