Founded in the 1846 as the
weekly Hillsdale Whig Standard, the newspaper dropped the name "Whig" in 1851 and converted to daily publication as the
Hillsdale Daily Standard Herald, after absorbing its local competitor the
Herald-Democrat, in 1909. From 1911 to 1915 it was called simply
The Hillsdale Daily before adopting its current name. The paper was formerly owned by
Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by
Morris Communications in 1994. Morris sold the paper, along with thirteen others, to
GateHouse Media in 2007. == References ==