Austin Bonta

Throughout the year, we sat down with cancer survivors, military veterans, community change-makers, enthusiastic high schoolers, and more. The residents of Portage make the most powerful impact on the community, and being able to sit down and listen to their …

Early last year, I made a decision to purposely change the way I talk about something when I talk about it. Growing up in Northwest Indiana, I grew up referring to the area of of our state I’m from as “the Region,” as so many other people do …

It’s still been an interesting experience for me to realize how some people don’t know how big Portage is and has been for years. Portage is 25.55 square miles of land, and our city’s total population is 38,513 people. To make some …

It has been interesting for me to realize how many people in Portage don’t know how big Portage is and has been for years. Portage is 25.55 square miles and our city’s population is 38,513. To make some comparisons, Valparaiso is 16.39 square …

On this evening sixty six years ago, somewhere around ten thousand people turned their lights out and went to sleep in an unincorporated area in the northwest corner of Porter County, Indiana. When they woke up the next morning on June 29th, 1959, they were …