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Porter County Aging and Community Services Executive Director Bruce Lindner seeks to remind the community of the agency’s weather policy. “With experts expecting a snowy winter season, we want to emphasize that our policy doesn’t necessarily...

Portage Mayor-Elect Jim Snyder announced Troy Williams would take the reigns as the new Portage Police Chief on Tuesday, with proud family members, friends and fellow police officers attending in recognition and support. Corporal Williams was serving...

Once known as the Everglades of the North, the Grand Kankakee Marsh (GKM) was one of the largest wetlands in North America. This million-acre marsh covered much of present day Northern Indiana and Illinois, and was home to some of the highest...

All City of Portage offices will be closed Monday, December 26, 2011 and Monday, January 2, 2012 in observance of Christmas and News Years Day respectively. All recycling and garbage routes will be delayed by one day for the remainder of each week.

Despite the early morning snowfall on Saturday, December 17, 2011, the City of Portage and Mayor Olga Velazquez held a ribbon cutting ceremony in front of Fegely Middle School to commemorate the completion of the Stone Avenue Improvement Project. The...

There's no doubt that when citizens of Porter County venture out to enjoy a night on the town or to simply fill an errand, that they often don't think of whether or not their drive will be safe. That's where the Porter County Drunk Driving Task Force...

PortageLife.com truly has something for everyone.  The amount of good news, photos, articles and videos found on the site seems limitless.  Even though I visit the website regularly, I recently went on a search around the site and noticed that...

As 2011 comes to a close, we are looking back at some of the most popular stories about all the good happening in this community! We’ve shared over 900 stories in the PortageLife Community Section over the past year, with good news from...

I was fortunate to attend last Saturday’s Big Ten Championship in Indianapolis and happily watched my Wisconsin Badgers win the game, on to the Rose Bowl! You will note that I have not mentioned how well my Packers are doing this year, it just...

On Wednesday, Ideas in Motion Media Publisher Chris Mahlmann joined Tavis Buchan on The Lakeshore 89.1 FM’s “Lakeshore Drive” program, which runs Monday through Friday from 4:00pm - 5:30pm, to talk about his websites, Northwest Indiana, and...