Jessica Campbell

Beer lovers rejoice! No longer will Hoosiers have to cross into other states for the delicious taste of America’s Oldest Brewery because D.G Yuengling & Son Inc. is expanding to Indiana with the help of Indiana Beverage. After many years of...

You can sit with George Thon and just listen to story after story of what it was like to own a popular carry-out restaurant in Munster for 35 years. As he speaks, you can picture the scene: the hustle and bustle of the speedy carry-out joint,...

Several people have told Mildred Spencer she should write a book on her life. At 99-years-old in February, the book would be filled with many memories and many experiences, Spencer agreed, but she always tells them, “No way.” Spencer has been...

Five years ago a group of people in the community came together and looked at the Memorial Opera House with a candid perspective on its past and potential future. This jewel, this theatrical, beautiful, building? “What can we do?” they asked....

Every day, we use some sort of digital tool to share information. An iPhone, a computer, a new watch, an internet-connected television. Over the past few years, the steps toward this new digital environment have been significant and frequent and that...

The story behind Hannah’s Hope is not the way one would choose to start a story, but with an ending that continues through the positive work being done by its organizers. Born in 2009, Hannah Martinez was identified to have had a prenatal stroke,...

In 2012, Liz Moses-Culp started the senior citizen home, Moses Caregivers, to save her mother. She didn’t know if she could do it, she said, but she had to. Moses is from Northwest, Indiana, and graduated from Portage High School. After school, she...

Al Sabedra was in his mid-twenties, working for Ford Motor Company, raising one son with his wife when he realized what his true calling was supposed to be. It happened one day walking into a new gym on his way to sign up for a membership. “I...

Staci Pearman remembers what it was like to receive the left-over, back of the shelf cans from the holiday food drive. Some were expired, some were “food.” As a kid, being a raised by her grandparents, Pearman’s childhood is what inspired her...

Jan Wozniak has been a mother to about 400 children, taking each young one in when no one else could. When they grow up, the babies don’t remember the one who taught them how to crawl and stutter out the words ‘mama.’ They don’t remember the...