Nolan Ryan

Hillsdale Collegian • 28th May 2020

Local agricultural producers find new ways to do business during pandemic

As Hillsdale-area farmers and pro­ducers try to nav­igate the eco­nomic impact of Michigan’s shutdown, they are looking for ways to weather the COVID-19 pan­demic until things return to normal. Local pro­ducers are getting hit in a variety of ways as a result of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders. Lim­i­ta­tions placed on busi­nesses and social dis­tancing guide­lines are forcing farmers to get by as best they can while the pan­demic con­tinues to spread throughout the state. Some farm

Hillsdale Collegian • 27th April 2020

Hillsdale holds spring convocation online, Stewart receives Daugherty Award

While campus remains closed because of the COVID-19 pan­demic, the springtime tra­dition of con­vo­cation at Hillsdale College con­tinued, albeit in a near-empty Christ Chapel and streamed live online. During the livestream, held at 11 a.m. on April 23, College Pres­ident Larry Arnn addressed the current state of the college in this unprece­dented time. Arnn noted that he and the pro­cession of aca­demic deans and Chaplain Adam Rick were keeping six feet apart. The all-school GPA for the fall

Hillsdale Collegian • 16th April 2020

‘Not all tears are an evil’: Let yourself grieve for the lost semester

Only four weeks ago, I was relaxing in a cabin in Ten­nessee, reading chil­dren’s lit­er­ature for a class. It was a normal spring break, and while I was enjoying the time with my family, I was also ready to see my college house­mates again. But that’s when I first heard we wouldn’t be coming back, at least not until March 30 — and the impending dread set in as col­leges across the nation began sending stu­dents home. We all know by now what hap­pened in the fol­lowing weeks, including the exp

Hillsdale Collegian • 16th April 2020

Hillsdale College suspends in-person classes for remainder of semester

With the campus closed and in-person classes sus­pended for the remainder of the semester, Hillsdale College offi­cials are working on plans for com­mencement and when stu­dents may return to gather their things. Due to the ongoing threat of the COVID-19 pan­demic, as well as state-spe­cific travel restric­tions, the college decided to con­tinue online-only instruction, Hillsdale College Pres­ident Larry Arnn announced in an email on April 7. Classes were pre­vi­ously set to resume on April 20.

Hillsdale Collegian • 23rd March 2020

Hillsdale College pushes return date for students to April 20

Hillsdale College stu­dents will not be able to resume in-person classes until April 20, the college announced Monday due to the growing COVID-19 pan­demic. While the college orig­i­nally planned to bring stu­dents back to campus by March 30, Provost Christopher VanOrman announced Monday that the college would not have them return for about another month, due to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s exec­utive order instructing Michigan res­i­dents to not leave their homes except for essential trips until Ap

Hillsdale Collegian • 22nd March 2020

COVID-19 halts life at Hillsdale College: Online classes set to resume Monday

After most col­leges and uni­ver­sities have been shut down or shifted online due to the COVID-19 out­break, stu­dents and faculty across the country are adjusting to their new life after mandatory social-dis­tancing. As of Sat­urday morning, the U.S. had more than 19,900 con­firmed coro­n­avirus cases, with at least 275 deaths. The global death toll is at 11,900, with 4,000 of those deaths from Italy, the country with the highest number of deaths. According to Johns Hopkins Uni­versity data, t

Hillsdale Collegian • 5th March 2020

Scott Hodshire running for sheriff in 2020 Election, hopes to bring back former programs that benefit inmates

Scott Hod­shire, a former cor­rec­tions officer and marine patrol deputy, is running for Hillsdale County Sheriff and said he hopes to bring back pro­grams such as the GED and work pro­grams for inmates. Hod­shire, a lifelong res­ident of Hillsdale County, cur­rently works with a man­agement team and said that as sheriff, he wants to see more com­munity involvement with the office. The sheriff’s office needs to rein­state a variety of pro­grams it cut over the last several years in order to ens

Hillsdale Collegian • 5th March 2020

Presidential primaries, ISD millage on March 10 ballot

Res­i­dents of Hillsdale County will face two big issues on the March 10 ballot: the pres­i­dential pri­maries and a millage for the Hillsdale Inter­me­diate School Dis­trict. Interim County Clerk Michelle Loren said voters can choose to vote in either the Demo­c­ratic or Repub­lican pres­i­dential primary as well as on the millage, or on the millage pro­posal alone. Voters will decide on whether to approve the Hillsdale ISD millage that will increase funding for career and tech­nical edu­cati

Hillsdale Collegian • 27th February 2020

New Barney Charter Schools open in 2019

Four first-year charter schools from all over the country opened their doors as members of Hillsdale’s Barney Charter School Ini­tiative last year. This year, the BCSI staff con­tinue to work with the schools to make sure they offer a good edu­cation to their stu­dents. The four new schools are Ivywood Clas­sical Academy in Ply­mouth, Michigan; Northwest Ohio Clas­sical Academy in Toledo, Ohio; Treasure Coast Clas­sical Academy in Stuart, Florida; and Treasure Valley Clas­sical Academy in Fruit

Hillsdale Collegian • 20th February 2020

To the point: Fountain pens, writing experience highlight importance of handwriting

When Kelly Franklin received his first fountain pen from his mother, he had no idea of the obsessive hobby it would spark. Franklin, assistant pro­fessor of English, said he has seen a notable rise in fountain pen use and sales over the last decade or so. At one point, many fountain pen and ink com­panies were “tee­tering on the brink of extinction,” he said, but now, people of all dif­ferent back­grounds have come to embrace the alter­native writing implement. Fountain pens are, as Franklin p

Hillsdale Collegian • 20th February 2020

Former professor remembered for humor, humility

Donald Heck­en­lively always looked for ways to combine his career as a biol­ogist with his interests in the arts and com­puters. This served him well, for instance, when he had to illus­trate the mating habits of frogs for his class, much to the amusement of his stu­dents. Col­leagues and stu­dents remember Heck­en­lively, a former biology pro­fessor, for his humility and humor. He died after a brief illness on Jan. 27 at the age of 78 in Kala­mazoo, Michigan. During almost 30 years of teachin

Hillsdale Collegian • 6th February 2020

‘Emotion through flowers’: Heather Webster takes over The Blossom Shop

Heather Webster studied floristry in high school. This expe­rience would lead her, more than 10 years and 2 children later, to owning a flower shop in downtown Hillsdale. Webster took over as the owner of The Blossom Shop from Kathy Newell in November 2019. The store also sits in a new location at 14 N. Howell St, where Kingdom Geekdom used to be located. Now, two months into the new position, Webster said she has plans to educate the public about flowers and how to best use local florist shop

Hillsdale Collegian • 30th January 2020

Donald Trump’s March for Life appearance hurts the movement

Pres­ident Donald Trump made history as the first sitting pres­ident to attend the annual March for Life last Friday, but his presence hurt more than helped the pro-life movement. This year was my fourth time attending the March in D.C., and it was, by far, the most Trump-crazed one I’ve yet seen. That makes sense. But while walking toward the National Mall, I saw several vendors selling Trump mer­chandise (com­plete with T‑shirts that read “Impeach This,” showing Trump flipping the bird), scor

Hillsdale Collegian • 30th January 2020

“The Two Popes” reminds us how to bridge ideological divides

Everyone knows you shouldn’t talk pol­itics and religion, espe­cially at the Thanks­giving table. Dif­fer­ences tend to make things ugly. But dif­fer­ences are some­times important enough that they must be dis­cussed in hopes of set­tling an issue. This is cer­tainly true for people of the same faith who have com­peting views. Such is the problem pre­sented in Netflix’s “The Two Popes,” directed by Fer­nando Meirelles. The film attempts to rec­oncile two sides of the Roman Catholic Church, and

Hillsdale Collegian • 23rd January 2020

‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ invites us to love, listen to others

You would be hard-pressed to find a facet of life today that is not, in some way, affected by our con­stant access to the digital world and social media. In large part, this has led to a trib­al­istic approach not just to pol­itics and religion but even to things as sub­jective as tastes in movies. We seem to have lost the key to under­standing those around us. “A Beau­tiful Day in the Neigh­borhood” seeks an antidote to these rifts — to help us find a way of learning how to empathize with and

Hillsdale Collegian • 23rd January 2020

Domino’s closes, other pizzerias gain more business

The local Domino’s Pizza closed last month after its owners retired, and other pizzerias are seeing an uptick in business. Ken Clawson managed oper­a­tions at the Domino’s in Market House Plaza for 12 years, two years under the pre­vious owner and 10 years as the official owner. “I’ve had a great bunch of employees,” Clawson said. “I look back over the 12 years, and the crew changes over every couple years, but every crew that we’ve ever had has been like family,” he said. In the last two wee

detroitnews • 19th January 2020

Volunteers clean up NW Detroit neighborhood

Nearly 100 volunteers from Detroit Manufacturing Systems collected debris, mowed lawns, pruned shrubs and boarded up abandoned structures Thursday in the city's northwest-side neighborhood next to Brightmoor. The event, a partnership with the nonprofit Brightmoor Alliance and local churches, dates to 2012 and its part of the auto supplier's "Doing My Share" initiative, in which employees help with service projects for their community. The volunteers worked in shifts, sometimes taking breaks

detroitnews • 19th January 2020

Camp's classical focus previews Detroit Latin School

A summer camp for Detroit students entering fifth through eighth grades is previewing a private K-12 school that will focus on classical education when it opens a little over a year from now. During the Detroit Latin School's Socrates in the Summer program, students explore STEAM fields, primarily through ancient sources such as the classical Greek philosophers Socrates and Aristotle and the Greek poet Homer. Organizers are attempting to make learning fun for the students by combining discussi

detroitnews • 19th January 2020

Youth camp teaches financial literacy

As a child, Gail Perry-Mason was adopted, and the Kresge Foundation funded the process that united her with new family. Thursday, the financial expert and author paid it forward by leading students for a visit to Kresge's Troy investment office as part of a weeklong financial literacy camp. Money Matters for Youth, which Perry-Mason founded in 1996, holds the annual camp plus year-round events on Saturdays where she visits schools to teach students how businesses operate. "The kids are learni

detroitnews • 19th January 2020

Detroit firm breathes new life into pipe organs

In this age of digital, portable instruments, pipe organs would seem to be obsolete. But Rick Helderop, who repairs and designs them for a living, says he’s as busy as ever. Helderop, who owns Covenant Organs and has worked on the huge instruments for more than 30 years, recently restored, combined and installed two 1930s Kilgen pipe organs at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in White Lake and restored a 51-year-old organ at St. Regis Catholic Parish of Bloomfield Hills. He’s also repairing a