When a public/private partnership between Pavilion Partners and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources was first released more than seven years ago, members of the community immediately began to question the apparent lack of transparency behind the deal. The lease called for Pavilion Partners to renovate the aging pavilion at Indiana Dunes State Park, which first opened in 1930, with […]

From talk about “spark birds,” the first bird sighting to spark someone’s interest in birdwatching, to pointing out bird species and even noting the benefits of beaver dams, ecologist Matt Harmon led a group of the curious through Coffee Creek Watershed Preserve Friday morning. The 15 or so birders along for the hike, from as close by as Beverly Shores […]

At long last, ice cream weather is here. It was a long wait through weeks of wintery weather after his spring opening, but Marty Shrader, owner of Dog Days Ice Cream Parlor, is glad to see the summery weather – and the resulting long lines of ice cream fans at his downtown Chesterton shop, 123 S. Calumet Road. “It’s been […]

A housing construction site at Waverly Road and Knoelke Drive is characterized by piles of logs, mud and flooding when it rains. Twenty-four neighbors in the Dunes Forest subdivision have had enough. Laurie Franke-Polz gathered the signatures of residents and presented the complaints to the Porter Town Council during a May 10 meeting. “It’s ridiculous the mess this gentleman has […]