Chesterton News

A 25-year-old man from Watermoor was arrested and has been bailed until July 2. * HANDTOOLS worth A 150 and 300l of diesel was stolen from a vehicle compound in Poole Keynes between 5pm on May 19 and 12noon the following day.

In the first of four meet-and-greet sessions this summer hosted by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Superintendent Constantine Dillon faced criticism Wednesday on the issues of road closures, Cowles Bog restoration, and sign removals, but said he was eager to look into the complaints.

The Porter Town Council approved a contract Tuesday that will remove sidewalk tripping hazards in both the downtown and Porter Cove subdivision.

Friends, family and fellow police officers said goodbye Tuesday to Porter County Sheriff's Department Officer Phillip Pratt by celebrating his life, including his "old soul" and devotion to law enforcement.

A Chesterton woman who police said cut a child's wrists, then her own, last summer at Indiana Dunes State Park has agreed to plead guilty but mentally ill to a charge of battery with a deadly weapon.

The jury that found magnate Samuel Insull not guilty of 25 charges of mail fraud and antitrust actions in 1934 took just five minutes.

Bernard Holicky said he purchased tickets for the "Iceman Cometh" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre last fall and he wasn't letting the NATO summit deter him.

Chesterton High School senior Michael Leopold was recently awarded the 12th Annual ACE Award .

Lake Erie Land's petition to allow Robert Rhoda and his family to farm about 200 acres at Coffee Creek Center advanced to public hearing June 21, but only after Chesterton Advisory Plan Commission members asked a number of questions Thursday.

The Porter Plan Commission set a special June 6 public hearing on the rezoning of certain land parcels near Waverly Road and U.S. 20, but there's already disagreement what the proposed zoning should be.

No one's abandoning connecting Porter's hike/bike trail system to the Porter County Visitor Center and the east side of Indiana 49, but the general consensus Monday was that using the Munson Ditch easement to do it probably isn't the best way.

The heavy lifting's been done and now it's just a matter of finalizing some details and getting good cost estimates.

When, a couple of months ago, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum were still battling for the Republican presidential nomination, there was talk that a still-disputed nomination race here on May 8 could spell trouble for the Duneland School property-tax referendum, by giving more conservative voters another reason to go to the polls in force.

The city should be getting another microbrewery by autumn, and that would also mean one of the houses zoned for business on Roosevelt Road will be renovated and in use.

M7 Global Partners , a consortium of the United States' leading IT consulting firms, today announced the expansion of its partnership and geographic reach with the addition of Hogan Consulting Group , a premier solution provider for virtualization solutions that is headquartered in Chesterton, Ind., with offices located throughout Illinois, Ohio ... (more)

Mrs. Kathy Louise Mort Flory, 54, Akron, was surrounded by her loving family when she passed away at 11:50 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2012, in her home .

According to the Porter County Voters Registration office, early voting or walk-in absentee voting for the 2012 Primary Elections will end at 12 p.m. throughout the state of Indiana next Monday, May 7. Early voting is offered at three locations this year: the Porter County Government Center in Valparaiso , the North County Government Complex in ... (more)

In a political flier mailed this week by the Committee to Elect Evans Commissioner, the committee refers to Evans' primary election opponent Jim Biggs as 'A Tax and Spend Liberal Porter County Can't Afford.' * The flier says 'He even thought about creating a NEW 'Public Safety Tax' in the middle of a recession.' The claim footnotes an article ... (more)