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Volunteer opportunities at Indiana Dunes Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes Tourism have partnered to offer Drop-In Volunteering, a no hassle volunteer option for those looking to help out at the Indiana Dunes. Opportunities will be available nearly every day of the week and will include stewardship, restoration, park cleanup, and more. On Saturday, August 20, and on the […]

Indiana Melon

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When young, I thought my mother was being a bit persnickety when picking out produce. Youthful impatience made be annoyed whenever I was made to cool my heels, and nothing was worse than standing idly by as she checked every single piece of fruit in the bin! Fortunately, I have come to learn that patience is a virtue, and a […]

CHS golf squad scores lower every tourney

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Five tournaments into the season, the Chesterton girls golf team has improved its team score in each event. The New Prairie Invitational at Legacy Hills in LaPorte last Tuesday represented a major breakthrough for the Trojans. All five golfers posted their season-best scores and the top four combined to post a team score of 376 strokes, a whopping 37 strokes […]

Girls soccer squad rich with talent, maturity, depth

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Amazing Grace Bamber drew so many superlatives from Chesterton girls soccer coach Ben Forgey during her junior season that there probably isn’t much more Forgey can say about her. Or is there? There is. “You hate to say something like this, as good as she was last year, but at training and in the scrimmages we’ve had, she’s been at […]

CHS tennis team to beat in DAC and sectional

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Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers never earned their third consecutive NBA title in the 1988-89 season, stopped by the Detroit Pistons in the finals, but the drive for it gave birth to a sports term that will endure forever. The Lakers didn’t get their three-peat, but there is reason to believe the Chesterton boys tennis team will achieve a pair […]