It wasn’t late yet, but the telltale signs that it was getting close were evident in the stands. Chesterton fans, who travel in huge numbers to support their favorite basketball team, began looking at the scoreboard more regularly, perhaps wanting to believe that their eyes had deceived them and there actually was either more time left or a smaller deficit […]

First Lady Jill Biden was on familiar grounds when she visited the Ivy Tech Community College campus in Valparaiso on Monday. Biden might be the best-known community college teacher in the nation. She has been a professor of English at the Northern Virginia Community College since 2009 and also taught before that at a community college in Delaware. Her doctorate […]

The new Yost Elementary School in Porter will be opening its doors to students this August when the school year begins. Chris Muvceski from the Skillman Corporation told the Duneland School Board Monday that construction has been proceeding well at Yost and with the renovation projects at the Westchester and Liberty Intermediate Schools. “We’ve made great progress. The weather has […]

How the Town of Chesterton might finance a new police station that will cost millions of dollars is coming into clearer focus. On Monday, Town Councilwoman Sharon Darnell (D-District 4) announced in a town Facebook posting that she and Town Attorney Chuck Lukmann were putting together information to apply for a state Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative (READI) grant […]