Brian Williams

This year’s 4th annual reading of the Declaration of Independence at Valparaiso’s 4th of July music and fireworks celebration was the best yet, thanks to the WWII vet, the lawyer, the pastor, the city councilman and the whole bunch of students and …

Valpo schools will brainstorm about, search for, identify, interview, select and hire a new superintendent, all in about two months – practically before spring arrives – if plans laid out by the school board on Jan. 23 pan out. At the tail end of its …

You read ValpoLife.com because you are involved and interested in the well-being of your community. You want the best possible community and you want to have a hand in it. I encourage Valparaiso residents to continue this involvement by joining the Valpo Next …

This piece is shared by Brian Williams, on the passing of Alan Bloom, Valparaiso University professor Another mourner has written Alan always had a smile, and I thought, “Yeah, that’s right, he did – and how’d he do that?” While for many of us life …

Four score and seven years is the age difference between the oldest and youngest readers at Valparaiso’s annual Declaration of Independence reading on Thursday, July 4. The reading by two dozen city residents will take place at 8 p.m. as part of the …

Fans of President Abraham Lincoln and poet Walt Whitman will perform a public reading of Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” in honor of Abraham Lincoln outside the Porter County Courthouse on April 15, 2011, at 12:15 pm. This public …