Porter County, Indiana – Porter County has been awarded $77,000 by the federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program to support local food pantries and homeless shelter services. The selection was made by a National Board that is chaired by the U.S....
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Historic Revocation Grant opens for applications
INDIANAPOLIS (July 3, 2019) – Today, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch and the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs announced that the Historic Renovation Grant Program, is open to for applications and will be accepted until all funding is...
Hammond Police Department Recognizes Officer Enrique Cook
The Hammond Police Department celebrated Officer Enrique Cook’s friendship with 11-year-old Matthew Virden and Cook’s commitment to the Hammond community on July 2 at his Officer Recognition. Cook is an officer in the K-9 unit, which often...
Hammond Mayor to re-open Boy Scout Road
Hammond Mayor Thomas M. McDermott, Jr. announces that 136th Street in North Hammond, also known as Boy Scout Road, is expected to be completely re-opened to traffic on Wednesday, July 3. After concerns were raised at a Mayor’s Night Out about the...
La Porte Police Department welcomes two new officers
The La Porte Police Department would like to welcome two new officers to the department. Officer Ryan Allen and Officer Zach Feldmeier were sworn in on July 1 by Chief Owens. They will be training around the department until going to Indiana Law...
Hammond’s Velocity 219 Volleyball
On June 17-18, Hammond’s 1st Club Volleyball Program, Velocity 219, went to the Asics Junior National Championship at Navy Pier. Velocity’s 16 Regional team finished in the Gold bracket. The team finished 9th overall in the 16’s pool at...
Crouch: Applications now open for new mentorship program
Today, Lt. Governor Suzanne Crouch and the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs announced the peer program, designed for communities to work together on improving their quality of place programming and have productive development...
Portage Township Schools to host Summer of Fun enrichment camps
Portage Township Schools is hosting their PTS Summer of Fun Enrichment Camps for all PTS students. The programs will feature art, athletics, life skills, writing, space exploration, outdoor exploration and more. There are four session remaining this...
Nothing like a cold beer and America’s Pastime
Strong organizations tend to gravitate to each other, and the resulting partnership strengthens each company in turn. As distributor for the South Bend Cubs, Indiana Beverage is ecstatic to align themselves with a partner that provides entertainment,...
Lifer garden forecast: yummy dilly beans
The Lifer vegetable garden at the Life Site office is progressing well, as this budding bean blossom shows. I usually prefer bush beans (which don’t climb) but these climbing pole beans will be just as delicious when the veggies come in. We look...