Chesterton News

The Duneland School Board will decide Monday whether to ask local property taxpayers to offset years of state education cuts by adding up to 22 cents on the local property tax rate in each of the next seven years.

What route through the Town of Chesterton should the Dunes-Kankakee Trail take on its way from Indiana Dunes State Park to the Kankakee River near Hebron? At a visioning workshop Thursday night, the 25 or so folks in attendance reached something like a consensus, first on the benefits which they would like the D-K Trail to confer on Chesterton, and ... (more)

The county could be getting new regulations on stormwater standards, property maintenance, LED signage and commercial composting sites as all four subjects met favorable review by the plan commission on Wednesday.

A crew filming an IMAX movie about Indiana's historic roads and the fascinating stories to be told along those roads is filming in Porter County today and Friday.

ROME, FEB. 7, 2012 .- G.K. Chesterton and Benedict XVI have plenty in common, according to a professor of literature and Catholicism from the Pontifical Lateran University.

The county self-insures when it comes to employee medical coverage, and has for decades, using Anton Insurance of Chesterton and Valparaiso to handle claims and logistics.

An underlying tension filled the Chesterton High School auditorium on Monday night when more than 230 community members turned out to hear details of a possible referendum to raise funds for Duneland Schools.

Porter County, Ind. - A semi-trailer truck driver was killed early Saturday when he hit a horse trailer that had broken free from an SUV on the Indiana Toll Road near Chesterton.

Organizations addressing housing issues in Porter County banded together on Monday to announce the No Place Like Home initiative, a ten-year plan to end homelessness throughout the county.

The sun was shining on that March day in 2007. It was 38 degrees when I left Lafayette to drive to Chesterton, Ind.

Members of the Connors family told the Chesterton Board of Zoning Appeals why they need to revise signage at their East Porter Avenue auto dealership, but it was matriarch Phyllis Connors who cut to the chase.

Chesterton firefighters responded to their third house fire in as many days on Tuesday, this one a kitchen fire in a residence in the 800 block of South Jackson Blvd.

The Indiana Department of Workforce Development reported the state's preliminary seasonally adjusted jobless rate held steady at 9.0 percent in December, the same as November and October .

CHESTERTON, Ind. - State parks officials say a 65-year-old northern Indiana man collapsed and died while jogging with friends at Indiana Dunes State Park.

Developers of the mixed-use 109-acre medical campus adjoining the new Porter hospital are taking a breath as the Porter County Board of Appeals unanimously voted to approve the last of 36 variances petitioned since October.

And if you haven't received your bill by early next week, say, you would do well to call Utility Billing Clerk Donna Simmers at 926-1572. Because-it turns out-the U.S. Postal Service has been having some problems getting the bills to customers on a timely basis.