Zach Blair

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

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

Kaleb Chamberlin descends from a long line of musicians and educators who’ve dedicated their careers to teaching students in the Mishawaka area. He attended Mishawaka High School, and that gave him his first exposure to the majesty of the band. As of the …

One of the staff members and Lifers at GreatNews.Life (GNL), Garrett Spoor is a contributing writer and editorial member for the online publication. He grew up in Valparaiso and attended Wheeler High School, where he graduated in 2019. He has possessed a …

As an artist, Mykale Willaims attended South Bend’s Clay High School, where she had her first brushes with the arts. She studied dance there, and she applies her love for the art-form to this day, having locally been in productions at places like New …

Savino Rivera Jr. spends every moment of his vocational life giving back to the community he came up in. He was born and raised in South Bend. He graduated from John Adams High School. After that, he was a student at Indiana University. During the summers in …

Kamryn Shtompil grew up and went to high school in Portage. She’s always had an interest in working with others through their lives. Her time as a high school student initially showed her that, but it really was her experiences at Valpo’s Ivy Tech …

As a result of his hard work, Mitch McLane will be promoted from representative to sales manager at Janus Motorcycles of Goshen, Indiana. He’s been in Michiana for over half a decade, but is originally from Wildwood, New Jersey. His mother worked as a …

Lisa Cronin was born and raised in Oak Lawn, Illinois. When she got married, she moved to Chicago’s Beverly community, where she had her daughter, Courtney Murphy, in 1990. Murphy suffered from severe seizures and other medical complications around the time …

A Munster High School graduate, Erica Maar bounced around from place to place in Northwest Indiana. She’s originally from Lake County, having even lived at points in Highland and East Chicago. Her grandparents once were Hammond inhabitants, so she would …