The La Porte High School Slicers hosted the New Prairie Cougars as football season kicked off across Indiana on Friday night. The stands were full, the band played on, and the cheerleaders from both sides performed a halftime …
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Tom Dreesen, Frank Sinatra’s longtime opening act, brought his one-man show, “An Evening of Laughter and Stories of Sinatra,” to the Memorial Opera House Saturday night and played to a packed house with hearty laughs in support of the Memorial Opera …
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Downtown Hammond was brimming with tie-dye and peace signs Saturday during the 14th Beatles Fest. The annual favorite, which has grown from a barroom concert for 50 into a family-friendly event that takes over a city block, followed the first ever Cold …
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“People say political consensus is like herding cats,” Porter County Auditor Vicki Urbanik said, “which is fine with me because I’m an expert at herding cats.” Urbanik draws from her experience as “crazy cat and dog lady,” playing forever friend …
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Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce celebrated the lifetime achievements of Cal Bellamy and Frank Van Til at A Salute to Education on Wednesday night and unveiled the Legacy Foundation’s progress toward raising $100,000 to support East Chicago and Hammond …
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The concept of Women United, United Way of Porter County’s nearly year-old program, is quite simple: Unite women. What they’ve discovered in their first year is that this simple concept can make a powerful impact. Women United is an international …
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When Beth Sexton moved her family to Portage almost nine years ago, life was in flux. As a single mother of two, though, one thing was certain: she was going to do everything she could to help support her children. She enrolled them at Jones Elementary and …
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